To me, it seems kinda pointless to have a calendar in a mental hospital, unless it was for the benefit of the staff. I mean, I'm sure most of the patients were too "out of it" most of the time, if not all of the time, to know, or even care, what day, month, or year it was, anyway, and in a place like that, I'm sure each day was pretty much the same as the day before.

Anyway, thanks, Mr. Motts, for this site which has to be one of THE most fascinating on the Web. You can actually spend HOURS on here! There is no question that you are a MASTER photographer!

Hmmm. Food-tray carts, perhaps? Just a guess. Nah. Probably not, but then again...

As with all these pics, it's haunting. Too haunting and too melancholy for me to use as a wallpaper.

The lighting in your photos is so hauntingly beautiful! Is that moss growing on the floor in this pic? Great shots! I'm seeing more of the Norwich Hospital through your photos than I EVER saw of it when I grew up just up the street from it!

You're close. It's "qui transtulit sustinet," meaning, "He who transplanted still sustains." It's the Connecticut state motto.

That fireplace is amazing! I grew up just up the road apiece from the Norwich Hospital, but the only building I've ever been in is the Administration Building. My father worked at the Norwich Hospital for years as a psychiatric aide. Fascinating photos!

Not JUST Rhode Islanders, Little Rhody Girl! I grew up and still live in Connecticut, and I remember taking family trips to Rocky Point. I can remember once going through the Hauted House with my cousin, but my favorite Rocky Point memory is of its carousel, because that was the first merry-go-round I ever saw that had all kinds of different animals on it, not just horses. It was wonderful! When I first heard that Rocky Point was going to close, I wondered what was going to happen to that carousel and all its animals, would it be sold intact, or the animals sold off individually.

I guess Rocky Point's famous Shore Dinner Hall is gone now, too.