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Death and Disease Were No Strangers At Its Door: The Ladd School, 1918

Death and Disease Were No Strangers At Its Door: The Ladd School, 1918

How the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic plagued Rhode Island’s School for the Feeble-Minded
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Jason Carpenter
Apr 6, 2020
Something About Snow | The Ladd School

Something About Snow | The Ladd School

In Exeter, Rhode Island, a crude stone marks Guy King’s grave.
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Jason Carpenter
Mar 2, 2019
Going Home, Part 5: Dear Miss Linden

Going Home, Part 5: Dear Miss Linden

March 13, 1951
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Jason Carpenter
Aug 13, 2017
Going Home, Part 4: So Long

Going Home, Part 4: So Long

The true story of one child’s final days at The Ladd School.
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Jason Carpenter
Aug 13, 2017
Going Home, Part 3: A Street Cleaner

Going Home, Part 3: A Street Cleaner

The true story of one child’s final days at The Ladd School.
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Jason Carpenter
Aug 7, 2017
Going Home, Part 2: The Man You Wanted To See

Going Home, Part 2: The Man You Wanted To See

The true story of one child’s final days at The Ladd School.
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Jason Carpenter
Aug 1, 2017
Going Home, Part 1: About Philip

Going Home, Part 1: About Philip

The true story of one child’s final days at The Ladd School.
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Jason Carpenter
Aug 1, 2017
Trusted To His Duty Like a Man: A Veteran’s Letter, From the Desk of Dr. Ladd

Trusted To His Duty Like a Man: A Veteran’s Letter, From the Desk o...

William Henry Miller was one of just thirty-three inmates committed to the Rhode Island School for the Feeble-Minded in Exeter.
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Jason Carpenter
Nov 11, 2016
The Train Unloads Its Sorrows: Scenes from Rhode Island’s Dark Days of Social Welfare

The Train Unloads Its Sorrows: Scenes from Rhode Island’s Dark Days...

The treatment of the insane, the prisoners, the feeble-minded and the poor in Rhode Island, in those dark days, was singularly backward.
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Jason Carpenter
Aug 18, 2016
A Fiendish Murder: The Rhode Island Cold Case You Never Heard Of

A Fiendish Murder: The Rhode Island Cold Case You Never Heard Of

Whatever really happened to Rita Bouchard one February morning in 1947 is a story that has very likely been taken to the grave.
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Jason Carpenter
May 16, 2016
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