Archive for August 17th, 2008
Canned Soul
Sunday, August 17th, 2008Politicians had been talking for years about the need to replace the Oregon State Hospital, but didn’t get serious about it until a group of legislators made a grim discovery during a 2004 tour: the cremated remains of 3,600 mental patients in corroding copper canisters in a storage room. The lawmakers were stunned.
“Nobody said anything [...]
TMI: Diary of 37.5 Million Words
Sunday, August 17th, 2008Rev. Robert Shields (1918 – 2007) was a former Minister and high school English teacher who lived in Dayton, Washington. He left a diary of 37.5 million words chronicling every 5 minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
Excerpts:
July 25, 1993
7 am: I cleaned out the tub and scraped [...]
