Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietyDeath and Disease Were No Strangers At Its Door: The Ladd School, 1918How the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic plagued Rhode Island’s School for the Feeble-Minded5 min read·Apr 6, 2020----
Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietySomething About Snow | The Ladd SchoolIn Exeter, Rhode Island, a crude stone marks Guy King’s grave.8 min read·Mar 3, 2019----
Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietyGoing Home, Part 5: Dear Miss LindenMarch 13, 19514 min read·Aug 14, 2017----
Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietyGoing Home, Part 4: So LongThe true story of one child’s final days at The Ladd School.4 min read·Aug 14, 2017----
Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietyGoing Home, Part 3: A Street CleanerThe true story of one child’s final days at The Ladd School.6 min read·Aug 8, 2017----
Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietyGoing Home, Part 2: The Man You Wanted To SeeThe true story of one child’s final days at The Ladd School.6 min read·Aug 2, 2017--1--1
Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietyGoing Home, Part 1: About PhilipThe true story of one child’s final days at The Ladd School.4 min read·Aug 2, 2017----
Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietyTrusted To His Duty Like a Man: A Veteran’s Letter, From the Desk of Dr. LaddWilliam Henry Miller was one of just thirty-three inmates committed to the Rhode Island School for the Feeble-Minded in Exeter.3 min read·Nov 11, 2016----
Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietyThe Train Unloads Its Sorrows: Scenes from Rhode Island’s Dark Days of Social WelfareThe treatment of the insane, the prisoners, the feeble-minded and the poor in Rhode Island, in those dark days, was singularly backward.13 min read·Aug 18, 2016--5--5
Jason CarpenterinThe Ladd School Historical SocietyA Fiendish Murder: The Rhode Island Cold Case You Never Heard OfWhatever really happened to Rita Bouchard one February morning in 1947 is a story that has very likely been taken to the grave.15 min read·May 16, 2016--5--5