By Shannon Butler Poughkeepsie is an enigma.  It's a place that has inspired people to come and to do great work. Its views have inspired beautiful art, and its schools have produced great minds. On the other hand, it is also a place that has inspired people to leave because of its reputation for making people ill. In the latter half of the 19th century, Poughkeepsie was both the glorious Queen City on the Hudson, full of opportunity and progressive thinkers, as well as the “Sickly City,” with water problems and constant outbreaks of[...]