1 Comments Posted by SSmith

I worked in the Kitchen in the Summer for several years between 1979 and 1982. We made sauces and cooked vegetables in the kettles. We made the meals for the whole facility and some were fed in a cafe that was part of this building and the bedridden patients were fed in the buildings with delivery via a panel truck. The facilities were very clean and the food was of very good quality. It wasn't as bad a life as people think for the patients. They had gardens to tend and exercise facilities. Some of the patients were abandoned by families and this was the only real home and community they knew. When they were cut loose and sent into the community many were just plain lost souls at that point. My sisters also worked in the Laundry facility.