a little piece, done at Skin Art Studio
...and for Mr. Rose on his 18th year of living...
Done at Cobra Custom
Happy Birthday
Sunday
Autistic Artist
Done at Cobra Custom
This man's 8 year old son is autistic and he can
This man's 8 year old son is autistic and he can
build big Lego replicas of flowers and insects after just seeing them once.
Saturday
Friday
Photography by Angie (previously Bearfield) Fiest
Silver Gelatin Prints
Unfortunately her website is long gone, but her photos, collected by many, are forever in our memory.
Wishing there were many more...
Half Abandoned, Half In Use, Fully Spooky
Fernald School, Waltham, Ma.
Used to be the State Emergency Center and now the Department of Retardation Center.
Across the street from the old State Hospital which is now closed.
Social reformer Samuel Gridley Howe founded the school in 1848 with a $2,500
History
appropriation from the Legislature. Records of Dr. Howe and the beginnings
of mental retardation services in the United States reside in Fernald’s
Howe Library. Under its first resident superintendent, Walter E. Fernald
(1887-1924), the school became a model educational facility in the field
of mental retardation.
In addition to developing the school, Dr. Fernald
promoted greater public awareness of mental retardation by participating
in national conferences, including two World fairs. In 1925, the Legislature
passed a bill officially naming the school the Walter E. Fernald State
School. Since then, dramatic improvements have taken place in the quality
of individual's lives, and in the quality of services they receive. In
1993, due to the concern and lobbying efforts of many Fernald parents,
The Fernald Center merged with the Metro Boston Region with a focus on
opportunities in the community for individuals to live and work.
Lawyers have filed a $60 million federal lawsuit against MIT, Quaker Oats and several doctors at the Fernald School in Waltham, charging that they exposed institutionalized children to radioactive materials in research intended to give Quaker Oats a competitive advantage over its rival, Cream of Wheat.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of 15 people used as test subjects at the Fernald School in the 1940s and 1950s, charges that the researchers tricked the children into participating in hazardous experiments by telling them they were part of a "science club."
info creds; www.highbeam.com, www.fernaldassociation.com/fernaldCenter.htm
CLAMS CASINO... CHA-CHING!
Anything that goes from this...
to this...
is worth looking at.
Mike Spears at
Mike Spears at
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