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Ellen Metzger displays a quilt she created to raffle off in support of the Flathead Valley Parkinson's Support Group at her home in Kalispell on Wednesday, April 17. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)

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Living with Parkinson's
April 20, 2019 4 a.m.

Living with Parkinson's

In the 1980s, a Dutch horticulturist with Parkinson’s disease developed a tulip that was deep red and edged with white — a masterpiece he would name after Dr. James Parkinson and one that would also later become a national symbol for the disease in April 2005.