56 Comments Posted by robert

I attended school here in 1968 as a high school junior considering becoming a Salesian priest after 7 years attending Salesian sleep-away camp from 1959 to 1965 followed by working at the camp in 1966 & 1967.
Some of my happiest years were spent at Camp Don Bosco and the one year I spent at the junior seminary in Goshen with excellent teachers and other students also positively influenced in their lives by the famous charism of the brothers and priests of Saint John Bosco. Alas, chastity (an unnecessary vow if there ever was one, not something Jesus called for and in my opinion the single most important reason why vocations are way down and there’s a higher proportion of child molesters than in the general population) wasn’t for me, so I left. Unfortunately the Salesian’s have had their fair share of these misfits who have adversely affected some young people so profoundly but thank God the vast majority perform and conduct great work around the world today. When the Salesian’s finally sold the facility because of lack of vocations they were actually swindled which also added to the demise of the property. Such a shame, but the seminary overall produced hundreds who did (and still) do excellent work in the world. I loved the place and will always have fond memories of my time there. To me and many others it will always be hallowed ground.
Bob Miglino

Looks like this tractor has found a new owner in 2015 and is going to be restored:
https://www.smokstak.c...wthread.php?t=155064

a wonderful portfolio of long ago memories...would have loved to have seen some exteriors - specifically of the fire escape up which 6 or 7 friends of mine carried two cases of beer while sneaking into our 2-bed room...have to keep costs down as college kids!

I was a laborer in about 1952 when a "new" wing was added. I was hurt on the job, met a lovely nurse there, learned to like the kids who chatted with me. I thought that place would go on forever. Sad, in a way. I am now retired, the nurse is deceased and the building is no more.

Perhaps behind "de-institutionalization" was the sound of lip licking of so -called real estate "developers".

Go there at Sunset!

Its from the mysterious quality of abandonment that I think inspired some film makers to make movies of ghosts in abandoned asylums and schools, etc. Their very creepy.

Good work. Very interesting. YouTube has videos of "Urban exorations" of abandoned homes, hotels, old mansions, etc. Very, very interesting. Good work!

This cabin was huck finns fishing hut. There was a small pond beside it where kids could try to catch goldfish with corn. A lucky catch would earn you a card saying you were a member of huck finns fishing club. I wonder if the pond survived.

I was on Ward D from 1970-1973. My parents didn't have a say in the medication regimen I was on, nor could they take me out. I was civilly committed under the new law (at the time) M.G.L. Chapter 123.

I love this site the pics and the comments on them are awesome! As I was a patient in the eighties (stupid drunken crap I pulled cutting, etc.) this site has inspired me to wite a story thanx for the facts I couldn't find a contact link so I leave this comment here.

Hey you good people at opacity.us I'm a 44 year old writer when I was a younger fellow I had some drug and alcohol problems and wound up doing two stretches one month a piece (I tried to commit suicide while I was drunk and high) at Met State I swear some of the things I saw there (This was back in the early eighties) frightened me bad enough to make all my little hairs stand on end! I love this site it's giving me some good background for a story I'm writing about the place. Thanx again!

I recall the Ladd school from the early 1970's. my grandmother worked and lived there in an apartment on the grounds. this was a sad and depressing place for many unfortunate souls. My grandma was named Jennifer Lee Bvtler.

WAIT... i thought this was a home for kids that have behavioral issues??? what a morgue doing there?

How can this not be a wallpaper?! Fantastic Shot Sir!