Gathering

Yea, cheer for the home team!!

Kind of sad that they didn't even let them out for exercise...

They occasionally let them out. They even gave some of them passes so they can take a bus and go into the surrounding cities. They also let them roam the grounds. They had a park with a baseball-field before it all got overgrown. This information can be found by reading the book Lost In A Desert World by Roland Johnson, a former patient.

HEY A not so lonely chair ;-)

Well..desk chair type things anyway....

Reminds me of the scene in Halloween (the newer one) when they have the kid eating in the cafetiria or something. In like, his institution. It's constructed kind of the same as this room. Creepy.

my great-grandmother gave birth to my great-aunt and great-uncle, twins. later, she found out my great-uncle eugene was mentally handicapped. retarded. the doctors said that she should send him away and forget about him. luckily, she didn't. she raised him on the family farm. i don't have many memories of him. just a couple. we spent time when i was young coloring and painting together. he died at home, in his sleep in the late 80's.

today, he simply would be labeled as slow or delayed. i don't know how to describe how i feel looking at these photos and think that he could have lived his life at a place like this, not knowing what a real family would have been like. i'm glad my great-grandma stood up for what was truly like. and at the same time, i feel sad for the children who didn't have that chance.

how reated was he why did,t you send to the school where could get help with his reatedan and hadicap

Over on the far right-towards the back of the picture-there appears to be a pair legs standing there. Near the brick..