M&M Hotel - farewell to horror.m4v
The M&M Hotel - farewell to horror.m4v Looking for a story for the "horrified" story slam I bumped into an "old friend" and took some pics. Then I recorded my thoughts while sitting in our car, on an errand. In this short digital story, I have combined my thoughts and images with some images I found on line. They were amazing. These photos by Anna Shuelit were the exact mirror of images in my memory from my many visits to and from MMHC as a daughter and sister of mentally ill family from 1968 -- until 1990? Or so? . The picture of our mother, sitting lost and alone, on our living room couch is seared in my mind. Check out the site and the project at: www.1856.org "THE MASSACHUSETTS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER The Massachusetts Mental Health Center opened its doors on June 24, 1912. From its inception, the institution has been a partnership between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School. It is one of the oldest public teaching hospitals in the United States and has trained several generations of leaders in American psychiatry. Located three blocks from Harvard Medical School, it is both a state mental health facility and a center of academic psychiatry, combining public service with clinical- and research programs. MMHC serves an ethnically diverse catchment area of about 285000 people in several Boston neighborhoods, with a mission to care for the seriously mentally ill regardless of their financial circumstances. The center began as the Psychopathic ...
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