1 Comments Posted by ReedSavory

My mother, Peggy (Pierce) Savory did a year of her nursing residency at Danvers State. I believe the year would have been around 1964 or 1965. She too remembers the ring of keys... and "those damn creepy tunnels that ran under everything".

Bonus factoid - My mother's grandparents (the MacDonals) owned the farm that existed where the Tara Hotel and Golf course now are (until the property was taken by the State during the "widening" of Rt 95). My mother's parents lived on and worked the farm, which is where my mother and her siblings all grew-up.

And yes, they could see the spires of Danvers State from the farm nearly every day, looming over them from the higher hills.