Weird things found on the internet...

[jhetley]

...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...

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According to my mother, yes, you could smell it at the Hannah and Lay Docks if the wind was right. Her family moved from the Superintendent's House to a place on South Union when her father was promoted to another state post, but the memories followed them...