On August 22; 1914; Milford; Connecticut; celebrated its 275th anniversary. An estimated crowd of 20;000 celebrated on the Milford Green alongside open-air horseless buggies. The celebration started at sunrise with a cannon salute and the sounding of church bells and factory whistles. Milford just recently celebrated its 375th anniversary.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Not worth the money!By MagmooPoorly written. Full of inaccuracies. including the location of Seaside Regional Center (Waterford. not Waterbury). Very disappointed. I regret spending money on the book0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Needed More InfoBy Mary Jane KrausThe photographs were great! However. the authors did not write a description under each photo of where it was taken. You wanted to know more about each photo and a description of its history.7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Disappointed.By Tacky JulieI was disappointed in this book. I was hoping for a coherent presentation on state asylums in Connecticut. This is not it. It is a disjointed assemblage of pictures and text of dubious value. In many cases. such as the top photo of page 15. I dont even know what is being depicted; its just a circle of metal pipes with weeds all around it. The caption does not say where or when or why the photo was taken. Instead it gives general statistical information about tuberculosis. On page 86. theres a photo of a two-story brick house. Why is it there? What does it have to do with Norwich State Hospital? The caption mentions (among other things) the Kettle Building. which this house is not. This kind of thing happens through out the book; these are just two examples. Its as if they wrote the text first and then randomly placed photos that have no connection to what is being said. The discrepancies between the photographs and the captions that accompany them makes for a jarring. confusing reading experience.There are no footnotes or bibliography. so its unknown where all this information came from. It is important to know so that readers can judge for themselves whether what they are reading is reliable. I was particularly disturbed by the two anecdotes. "The Story of Thomas" and "The Story of Donna." for which no sources are cited. Without substantiation. these stories are merely sensationalism. I dont understand the point of including "The Story of Gerri Santoro." Its about illegal abortion. and the only connection to the subject of this book is that she and her lover were employees of one of the institutions. Like the stories of "Thomas" and "Donna." it seems like it was only included for sensational reasons.There is a focus in the book on the problems of state mental hospitals. but nothing on people who were helped. I know. from my own research. that this is difficult to find -- but not impossible. The doctors. nurses. social workers. and attendants worked under difficult circumstances with inadequate funding and resources. The fact that patients were regularly discharged seems to indicate some were helped and returned to their communities and families. I do not think this book is balanced in its presentation of the problems of state institutions.If anyone is interested in beautiful photographs of decaying state hospitals accompanied by well-researched and thoughtful commentary. I recommend "Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals" by Christopher Payne. with an essay by Oliver Sacks. M.D.Arcadia Publishing provides local authors an easy way to get historical photos published. but the quality of their publications is uneven. This one could have used an editor. The subject is interesting to many. but the book fails to illuminate it. Im actually sorry I bought it.
