A Life Defined by Resilience Evern "Earl" Bailly arrived in the world in 1903 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The son of a blacksmith and a schoolteacher, his early years were marked by a profound physical shift when he contracted polio at the age of two or three. This illness left him a quadriplegic, stripping him of the use of his arms and legs. Yet, where physical movement ceased, a different kind of expression took root. Under the guida…