651 Comments Posted by Nancy

Home away from home in the late 1960's

Home away from home in the late 1960's.

The old buildings were named for counties: Genesee, Livingston, Orleans etc

I miss looking at that place. My ex-father in law volunteers at the Frontier Museum and I said to him I've always wanted to walk up close and marvel the site despite being off limits to the public.

I always joked that if I were to ever scored a financial windfall, I would like to repurpose that building into something cool that can give back to the community than leaving it there all derelict. If such a replica of this existed in Vancouver Island; it would've definitely been restored to previous glory and given a second life.

Punch tape, I remember it well. This is a gorgeous picture. I love the contrast between the orderly, identical punch tape holes and the random flakes behind them.

Prancer and Tony C, I love you both.

It was a good thing I had my lucky sock and glove with me when I noticed the crooked cushion on the chair. Disorder is unacceptable, don't you agree?

Because I was fortified with my lucky charms, I only had to hurl the cushion out the window and smack the chair around the room a few times before the balance of the universe was restored.

I worked at Dever in 1978- 1985. It was called a school, but it was anything but that! Thank god for awareness and Heraldo Rivera for his gutsy documentary.

My sister was a patient of Dr. Jervis. She was retarded due to PKU. Thanks to Dr. Jervis she stayed on the special diet and is still living at home-never institutionalized. She is now 57 years old. We used to travel from New Jersey every 6 weeks for a visit to him at the lab in Letchworth.My parents were responsible for having the law passed in N.J. for mandatory newbown testing for PKU.

The problem with the town is that they didn't enforce zoning laws that require property owners to maintain their properties. They just sat and watched it decay and always thought it was somebody else's problem.
Now it is the town's problem. The piper always gets paid.

I'll say...Pat, you are the greatest - what a loyal guardian of Halcyon....

The piper always gets paid. Now the town will have to foot the demolition bill. It ignored the responsibility of protecting its own landmark. Instead of forcing the previous owners to maintain their property, it turned a blind eye. Letting it be someone else's problem now has become its problem. Three cheers for the piper.

Yes, Ratchet would know...is it still standing????

I visited Halcyon Hall a few days ago and it seemed curiously stronger. This is a heroic structure, indeed. It is determined to survive.