Erin in the Salina Journal:

Dulcimer therapeutic for cancer patient
by: Gary Demuth

Erin Rogers has no trouble playing her mountain dulcimer for three hours at a time.

The music that flows from the four-string, guitar-shaped instrument produces a soothing, ethereal, harp-like sound that "takes me to another place," she said.

Going to another place helps Erin deal with the headaches and nausea brought on by twice-a-month chemotherapy treatments.

The 20-year-old Concordia resident is being treated for Hodgkin's Disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes that often affects teenagers and young adults.
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