52 Comments Posted by mary

I am 55 and went to this park as a 12 year old with my 10 year old cousin (I think these dates are close). I was shocked when I saw it for the first time after so many years in 1997, with the sign still up and the strip mall next to it. I remember the parking lot in front of the sign being all dirt and very large. I thought of it as a place for younger children and yet still enjoyed myself. I am thankful to the owners of Clark Farm for any restoration they are able to do which will save a piece of my late childhood.

i would just like to say that i agree with lynne post.......i hate goth-fags.......it really isnt a laughing matter

now for me its a different story, i have grown up around death and morgues...my aunt is a trauma nurse and my dad is still a mortition.....i have seen some very interesting and some very horrific things concerning death.....i dont drool over death..... i embrace it and set out to learn everything about it...... which is why i am following in my fathers footsteps.....

thank you lynne for making that valid point evident!

~mary~

A computer room for teaching staff to use computers.

I agree, it looks like you are about to walk into hell.

I was thinking the same thing too.

I also worked at Pennhurst and remember this TA class and poster. I also know Marcia very well. The sheep were named after the staff that attended the class, not the "residents". And in agreement with her,the class was stupid as was the instructor. Orchid Lunar--I've read several of your comments throughout this Pennhurst tour, and you are WAY OFF on your assumptions. Calm down. Pennhurst was NOT the horrid place that it's being portrayed.

As a kid, back in the late 1940's and early 1950's we used to have a Girl Scout Highjinks at this place. There were still children living here and we could talk to them and play with some of them when we were off on our own. I remember how strange this place seemed as a child.