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Someone ran off with the Christmas turkeys! Now what will we serve?

Don't most physical therapy departments have pools?

I remember back in the 60s when you could rent a bathing suit from the pool for a quarter if you wanted to swim but had forgotten your own suit. Nothing seemed unusual about that then, but now...let's not even go there!

There are usually ways around the "age appropriate" dogma. For example, puzzles and coloring books for adults can be purchased from companies that focus on products for patients with Alzheimer's (reminiscence therapy) and hobby stores usually have beautiful coloring books intended for adults. Then you just use colored pencils instead of crayons (markers work too but most of our people would end up wearing more color than the paper). For people who have trouble gripping the thin pencils, buy the soft foam adaptive grips (my kids came home from grade school once to tell me they needed "rubbers"--I was only familiar with one kind of "rubbers" and they were NOT something I wanted my seven-year-old to have! It turned out that that was the name the kids had given the adaptive grips) or make your own out of sponges. One thing we usually become pretty good at, because so much of what our people need "is not in the budget this year," is finding ways to transform everyday items into therapy tools. Case managers should not be coming in and taking things away from staff or residents unless they are also providing better alternatives and training.

the current met state condos have a U shaped building that has a cupola like this on top. Is it the original one restored?

Please tell me that is the same state hospital in Springcity. I use to live in Springcity and rode by that place all the time. I haerd there were alot of stange things happening there during the time it was open. I hope that it is the same one...... thanks for the pictures of the inside they are great.

consider yourself fortunate if this is really the "grossest thing you have ever seen in your life!" You've had a very sheltered life!

Did you get a pair jp tho

this is stunning.

the millbrook board held its' 4th and final meeting to determine the fate of the Brickmann Blumenthal proposal to develop the Bennett College property.
Attended by a little under 100 people, only
2 people spoke in favor of the proposed development. Former mayor Don Briggs,
under whose term the plan was initially presented, made his case that it was a good
plan in the best interests of Millbrook.
Local contractor and builder Skip Ciferri,
whose ancestors built the stonework of Halcyon, also expressed a desire to see the plan move forward. Unfortunatly, unlike the former mayor, Skip felt the need to excoriate
dissenters, labeling them as "from outside the village" and imposing
'their own elitist view".

The counter argument against the development proposal was more effective
this meeting. 25 people alloted their 3 minute
slot to billionaire Oakleigh Thorne, whose
ancestral farm neighbors the Bennett property to the west. Thorne used the 45 minutes to present a comprehensive
argument against the project, based on
economic, environmental, infrastructure,
and quality of life issues.This included a
56 page slide show, as well as reports from
consultants Morris Associates.
Alot of residents of the existing condominium
community adjacent to the property in question also spoke against the plan. That
development from 1984 converted the
existing dormitories on the Bennet campus.

The meeting was actually very detailed
as far as the specifics of this development's negative impact on the village of Millbrook.
I have not the time nor space to get into those specifics, except to say that they were fairly thorough. The way previous meetings
were conducted, there was no opportunity to respond or counter SPECIFICS of the proposal. This should have been allowed
from the begiining, which seems why Thorne's presentation was necessary to
at least hold the board accountable to those specifics as it decides the fate of the Bennet
Property.

As of tonight, Halcyon Hall is still standing.

Thanks again Motts, you Rock....
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I have just started looking at these sent tjo me by my sister I love the pics!

It looks like a standard 13-step flight of stairs to me. Probably an emergency exit, not the primary stairway.

Remember the movie "The timemachine" ??? The older one ??? Welcome back !

Psychodelic... I shiver while I look on the photo...

I agree with Lynne that it looks like a basement storage area, with a door that locks--could have been for potentially hazardous cleaning supplies or old records. The wall closest to us doesn't look solid enough for anything other than a storage space. The more I look at it, the harder it is to decide whether we are inside the room looking out, or we are in the hall looking into the room.

Some guesses at what the safe might have stored: original documents related to the construction and opening of the institution (deeds to the property, surveys, blueprints, licenses, etc.) the fund from which petty cash was distributed to the various departments, once or twice a month the institution's payroll funds (in the days before paychecks and direct deposit, when employees were paid in cash), perhaps life insurance policies of patients who had them, legal record of bequests made to the hospital, the hospital's own insurance policies, perhaps especially valuable jewelry or other items held for patients (although I doubt if many patients had anything of that nature)...but I doubt if any clinical records or drugs were there.