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, fun is that why they are so destructive

On halloween me and a couple of freinds checked out the state schools...not to vandalize but to explore...we are all very facsinated by what went on in there....

If you actually "cared" you wouldn't make such ugly, blanket statements. To slam families who sent their child to a residential facility because it was the usual practice at the time is a cruel and hurtful thing to say. There may have been a handful of families who were embarrassed, but that was mostly because of how they were treated by others. And just like in every other home there may have been children who were abused, but tell me that doesn't happen today and with so-called "normal" children in "normal" families. "Unfit homes," my aching behind! You have made such ugly and hurtful charges against such a large segment of the population that I am stunned. The families of individuals who lived (and in some cases still live) in residential facilities are some of the kindest, gentlest, most caring people I have ever met. The pain and guilt that many of them went through (and in many cases still have) about sending their child away is some of the deepest and most grievous pain I have ever encountered. To call their homes "hell" makes me wonder about the deepest recesses of YOUR own personal soul (or perhaps your total lack of knowledge about these families). And then to assume that every single person was then sexually abused and tormented is just as sick. People like you frighten me, especially when you hide behind the "I care" label. What you care about is muckraking and voyeurism, and that is what "hell" is. My guess - you stir it up all the time and make life hell for others and then act self-righteous about it.

[Steps off soapbox and picks up bull's eye target to attach to shirt.]

people were sent there because their families were ashamed of their children, some were sent there because the police and social workers (child welfare) found these children in unfit homes only to be taken from one section of hell to a worst section of hell, they were sexually abused and overmedicated and strcited from any individual rights.

Amazing Photo

Plants like this often had huge steam engines driving the generators at first. Sometimes these machines were removed after they became obsolete and turbines were put in their place.

Oh No. I'm gettin' dizzy again!!!

I feel like a bird (a raven) on the rooftop just watching all the people.

It looks like the brick work of the back of a long bank of boilers on the right. They
were built like this from about 1900-1910
perhaps.

Yeah, I get a real cold feeling here. It also makes me think of a bell tower.

It looks to me like those are burners that
would use heavy bunker C oil. The old boilers may have used coal before the
oil burners were added.

Makes me think of Ireland. I'm of Irish decent. My grandmother was from Newry N. Ireland. Wish you'd some shoots in Ireland.

OOOOh That grass . You should have looked in the well. The son of the Earl might still be down there. You could have gotten him out. You'd be a HERO!! What is that square portion that comes out from the wall?? Looks like the base of an another part of the building. What was there????

I agree, what a shot. It makes me dizzy.

WHAT A SHOT!!!!!! You are good. There are those arches again.