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Large, wooden-hulled schooners graced the seas of coastal Maine for
more than a century as vessels of trade and commerce. With the
advent of steam-powered craft, however, these elegant four-, five-
or six-masted wooden ships became obsolete and vanished from the
harbors and horizons. The Edward Lawrence, the last of the
six-masters, became her own funeral pyre in Portland Harbor,
burning to ash before everyone's eyes. The Carroll A. Deering
washed ashore with no trace of her crew, empty as a ghost ship
except for three cats and a pot of pea soup still cooking on the
stove. In this testament to the beauty of the Maine coastal region,
maritime history enthusiast Ingrid Grenon tells the story of these
magnificent relics of the bygone Age of Sail and celebrates the
people who devoted their lives to the sea.
This book chronicles the development of the institutional model in
Massachusetts with the well-intended beginnings, the decline and
subsequent heroic reform. Massachusetts led the country and perhaps
the world in the development of facilities intended to house the
mentally ill and developmentally disabled during the 19th and early
20th centuries. The state schools constructed during the early 20th
century in the United States were the direct result of the
unfortunate science of eugenics, as society strived to create a
race that was without flaw. After World War II, the eugenics
fervour became moot and the myriads of people who were placed in
state schools remained -- as society forgot about them. Sufficient
funding was denied, and both employees and residents suffered the
dire consequences of a society that no longer cared -- a society
that wanted to forget. This is the history of a place, but more
than that, it is a story about people. It is the story of great men
who did wonderful things and of well-intentioned men who made
egregious mistakes. It is the story of a heroic fight for reform. A
study of the human condition, of atrocity juxtaposed against
nobility -- a constant struggle. Unlike many other books on this
topic, here there is a happy ending. Nobility triumphs. The
tireless human spirit perseveres, and society is forced to listen
to the cries of its institutionalised.
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