5 Comments Posted by Maxwell

Former Resident, that's funny they told you girls to stay away from Timothy Leary's house! Indeed, no place for a proper young lady, he had the real halcyon hall!

Shell, why do you THINK they separated genders?

Marcy, In the old days there were few community supports for mentally retarded children. Thus, families did not get the moral or financial resources they needed to take care of a child with special needs. In fact, there was a social stigma attached to having a retarded child in the family, as if the parents were at fault. Parents were encouraged to hand the baby over to the state and forget about it. Many did. What Brittany said about promiscuous girls being institutionalized did happen owing again to social shame and primitive regard for human sexuality. Rosemary Kennedy (JFK's sister) is a famous case of a person mild LD and behavioral problems being institutionalized, lobotomized, and rendered utterly dysfunctional. I have compassion because I had LD and behavioral issues as a kid and, under different circumstances, would have been institutionalized.

I saw the LWV Ghost Hunters episode and thought it was sensationalized hogwash. If you psych yourself with horror stories before you visit a site, you are going to confirm your prejudice. Maybe there are ghosts at LWV, but I doubt the kids from Ghost Hunters would know how to communicate with them. Ghost Hunters had to beef up there findings with sill cartoons of apparitions with glowing eyes and dead voices coming through the car radio. Anybody who buys into that should just stay home and read HP Lovecraft!

Memphis, yes, Marathon Man with Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman. Mandatory for pictures of old dental equipment! ; )