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Weird things found on the internet...
...personal connections division.
Okay, there's this internet site devoted to a particular subset of Victorian-era insane asylums (or state hospitals, the polite term). Which I found featured in one of my junk-mail architectural magazines. And one of the asylums listed:
http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/traversecity/
The personal connection -- my grandfather ran the place for about a decade, back around the turn of the previous century, and my mother was born there. We have, downstairs, an inlaid walnut cribbage board and a "Petoskey Stone" napkin ring made by inmates as presents to the family...
Okay, there's this internet site devoted to a particular subset of Victorian-era insane asylums (or state hospitals, the polite term). Which I found featured in one of my junk-mail architectural magazines. And one of the asylums listed:
http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/traversecity/
The personal connection -- my grandfather ran the place for about a decade, back around the turn of the previous century, and my mother was born there. We have, downstairs, an inlaid walnut cribbage board and a "Petoskey Stone" napkin ring made by inmates as presents to the family...