4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

YES - WOW - a new Gallery, and so soon. Goodness! Thank you so much! (For info.+hist.pics. also)
And the door and windows open - it is so welcoming today - anything could happen. Most attractive. Am so happy. Yes, you rock, Mr. M.

Thank you, Mr. Motts, for letting us have another look at Pennhurst.

Looks like someone may have cleaned that bathtub after its last use. And the butterflies...what a lovely touch to an otherwise stark room

Me thinks that Phantom is that urban explorer that likes to vandalize. Graffiti is just plain ugly in this case. No artistry to it whatsoever.

There she stands, withering away, surrounded by the autumn leaves.

How many patients gazed through this window yearning to leave Pennhurst?

"Sit down and rest awhile. We're friendly chairs."

It seems modern architecture keeps getting tackier and tackier.

And so the graffiti vandals must leave their mark...

You took this photo just right with the blurred background and the focus on the books, especially the "Women in White." No matter how many of these galleries I view, it always puzzles me how people just abandoned them with books, and beds, and equipment, etc.

Superb shot with the fall colors, the open door and the brick facade. Like the angle of looking up as well.

Old fashioned stair master

Ka Reeepy

I did some research on my family and spoke to some guy in PA who made a hobby of documenting the Italian immigrants to his pat of PA. It was kind of upsetting because he was telling me about the Black Hand a precursor of the more famous mafia and he kept saying over and over "they do it to their own people" in a way that left me feeling very uncomfortable. I kind of felt he wanted a reaction but at the same time he seemed to have no idea how he sounded.

Nothing beats east coast fall color.

Check out this book; "The State Boys Rebellion"
http://books.simonands...ntonio/9780743245135

It describes a place near Boston where Eugenics was the basis of taking the boys and placing them there. They used this ploy on the poor, delinquents, single mothers or anyone who was unfortunate enough to fall under the radar of one of its proponents with juice. The most frequent use of the authority foolishly granted these people was to sterilize the children and adults they took into "Protective" custody so they couldn't pollute the gene pool. That is the central idea behind Eugenics.
I mention it because of the chart. Moron, Imbecile, Idiot etc are all "classifications" under the Eugenics model. It was a perversion of Darwin's theory to excuse treating the less fortunate badly. Much of what I heard said about me in the Shelter behind the Isolation Hospital was based in Eugenics. I even heard someone try to correct the person talking about me that way but of course they were not successful and surprise surprise I never saw that defender again.