Ellen Jean Hirst

Nathan Woessner is sitting up, watching cartoons and -- for the first time since being buried in a sand dune -- talking. The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital...

No family members wanted to talk who were at the scene where 6-year-old Nathan Woessner fell straight down into an unexplained hole that swallowed him whole in a sand dune....

No family members wanted to talk who were at the scene where 6-year-old Nathan Woessner fell straight down into an unexplained hole that swallowed him whole in a sand dune....

Six-year-old Nathan Woessner was halfway to the top of the 126-foot-high Mount Baldy sand dune in Indiana when he vanished. "The earth gobbled him up," said the Rev. Don Reul,...

A 6-year-old boy buried for hours under 11 feet of sand at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore could be off a ventilator by the end of the week and out...

I have a fond memory of lying on the deck of a sailboat my dad chartered, anchored in the calm harbor waters, and gazing up as fireworks burst to the...

I have a fond memory of lying on the deck of a sailboat my dad chartered, anchored in the calm harbor waters, and gazing up as fireworks burst to the...

I have a fond memory of lying on the deck of a sailboat my dad chartered, anchored in calm harbor waters, and gazing up as fireworks burst to the rhythm...

I have a fond memory of lying on the deck of a sailboat my dad chartered, anchored in calm harbor waters, and gazing up as fireworks burst to the rhythm...