Hi Helen, AND I ALSO know that in the 20's and 30's DURING the GREAT DEPRESSION. Quite a few homeless peolpe went to live in the State Hospitals. AND at the time of GOV. WELD were many homeless people living in them. BUT there were MANY being treated with specials meds...THe IN HOUSE ones and OUT PATIENT. THERE is NO ONE to moniter these people that were let loose OR the OUT PATIENTS who did NOT take their MEDS. ACTUALLY at the time of GOV. WELD I worked in a STATE HOSPITAL. CUSHING HOSPITAL, FRAMINGHAM, MA. I graduated a NURSE from there. When I worked there it was a CANCER and OR ELDERLY. Which was my specialy I was a Geriactric Nurse.You know when Gov. WElD stole ALL that money from the STATE I had to work almost 3 months with NO pay...Till they could figure out where to get the money to pay US....It was during this time many of the workers quit and walked OUT on those ELDERLY...I couldn't do it....I stayed there till the end when they CLOSED CUSHING because of what WELD did. And I did alot of studying of the BOSTON Strangler. He was sent to BRIDGEWATER STATE HOSPITAL and that is ALSO where he died. Where Grafton State Hospital was is a YOUTH CORPS BUILDINGS. I went by there a year os so ago and they had it all set up for Culinary ARTS. My uncle from Madden Ave use to drive me up where the LYNAN school was and he always told me those kids were there BECAUSE they DID NOT listen to their PARENTS!! THere were probably many bad parents out there. There still are today....That is what I work with now...These troubled youths.... That thing my sister married was out here AND dangerous ALL these YEARS...amongst his many acts of wrong was IMPERSONATING....POLICE... STATE POLICE... and....CLERGY... VIOLENCE AGAINST women and CHILDREN....NOW....THAT is a DANGER to society...no mattter HOW you look at it... There are MANY good people in this world BUT there are still ONES with mental illness NOT be treated. You know it is a terrible thing BUT somehow they ALWAYS let the child molesters go.... EVen I cannot say for sure about 8 years or so(I think) The then GOV. Of TEXAS (Pres BUSH II) Had 2 people PLEA for there LIves.....One a child Molester and the other was at the time(of the offense) 11 or 12 year old female WHO admitted that a gang Broke her in and even though she resisted them...They overtook her as a child and was there when the older ones committed murder and it was a really horrible thing....Those 2 pleaded for there lives and he put to death the female and let the child molester back into society....I have studied on child molesters and they CANNOT be Re- Habilitated. Maureen >From: "Helen Ware" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Re: Lyman School >Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:34:50 -0500 > >Hi Maureen, >As Ii told you in an other letter I lived in Westboro for many years and we >were very familiar with both Lyman School and Westboro State hospital. >My Mother in law worked at the hospital for years as did many friends. >But the Lyman School was a good thing for many of the homeless and kids >that were not bad but got no attention or guidance at home. >we used to take some of the boys in for holiday dinners and picnics etc. >because my husband and I were active in youth sports and activities. The >boys from Lyman school were allowed to partake in these things. We never >had a bad experience and these kids we met were not bad kids. They wanted >attention and love, to be recognized as who they were. Some had done no >more than refuse to go to school every day. >I think the state of Ma. did a pretty good job taking care of these kids, >God knows what would happen if they were left at home with so called >parents. >All state hospitals have nightmare stories, but way back Westboro took in >not only mentally ill but people terminally ill who had no money to go to >the hospital. My great grandmother had terminal cancer and she was mentally >fine, she was in Westboro state and died there in August of 1922. >When my older boys were teen's in the 70's one of the Lyman School >buildings was opened for the kids to go roller-skating every weekend and >the kids loved it, gave them all something to do with their friends. >When the Boston Strangler was put in there many in Westboro were afraid he >would escape and harm local women, but I never heard of any state hospital >escapees harming anyone in town. >Helen > > >==== MAWORCES Mailing List ==== >Worcester GenWeb has many Resources >Check it out!! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces > _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement