The Willard Suitcase Exhibit Online. Excerpt 1. An exerpt from. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic. By Darby Penney and Peter Stastny Photographs by Lisa Rinzler. PROLOGUE: LIFE IN THE ATTIC. The Sheltered Workshop Building stands alone on a hill overlooking Seneca Lake next to the empty lot that once held Chapin Hall, the massive central building of . · The Lives They Left Behind, written by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny with photographs by Lisa Rinzler, is based on the contents of more than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings that were found when Willard State Psychiatric Hospital closed in after years of bltadwin.rued on: Janu. “The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic.” Darby Penny, Peter Stastny, Lisa Rinzler, Robert Whitaker. When Willard State Hospital closed in , after years of continuous operation, patient suitcases, filled with each patient’s personal belonging, were discovered, abandoned, in an attic/5(K).
"The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic." Darby Penny, Peter Stastny, Lisa Rinzler, Robert Whitaker. When Willard State Hospital closed in , after years of continuous operation, patient suitcases, filled with each patient's personal belonging, were discovered, abandoned, in an attic. Coauthor of The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, Darby Penney is a national leader in the human rights movement for people with psychiatric disabilities and a former state mental health official. An experienced trainer and qualitative researcher with a background in state mental health planning, Darby has written, presented and consulted nationally and. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Penney, Darby, Stastny, Peter. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,
Darby Penney and Peter Stastny brilliantly rescue ten people who spent time at Willard State Hospital from certain historical anonymity and silence by giving them voice to speak for themselves. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic - Kindle edition by Penney, Darby, Stastny, Peter, Whitaker, Robert, Rinzler, Lisa. If not for the discovery of suitcases filled with patients’ belongings in the hospital attic when the facility closed in , their lives would have been lost to history. This discovery led the authors—a psychiatrist and an ex-patient advocate—. Based on almost 10 years of historical detective work, Peter Stastny and Darby Penney have written about the lives of 10 people who were committed to Willard State Hospital in New York's Finger Lakes during the first half of the 20th century. Starting with the belongings left behind in these individuals' suitcases, the authors sifted through collections of photographs, old letters, diaries, archives, and personal mementos to uncover who these people were before they disappeared for decades.
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