https://oshmuseum.org/

It's the Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health. I didn't know it existed. I was already planning a visit to the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem Oregon. This stuff is only about 45 minutes away. I think this will make an excellent trip
report. :-)

https://www.willametteheritage.org/

(Sympathy for the Devil is playing in the background.)

This story requires a bit of explanation. I was in that building back when it was a going concern, around the time One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was published. I was a young teenager and we were visiting Father Bob. Father Bob had had some sort of
breakdown. I was always surprised they let us in. Even back then I had already started to suspect that my mother and her three children were part of what caused this. The short explanation is that my mother had good intentions and we were all young
heathens.

Father Bob had been a popular young Episcopal priest. He was just genuinely a nice person. He disappeared from our life soon after this. I hope he found a profession that made him happy.

So anyhow, some older woman with a very severe uniform guided us through several locked doors to a big room were we met Father Bob. He seemed the same as always. Looking back I strongly suspect that he had experienced a crisis of faith. The locked
doors were only there to protect him from other people. They weren't there to protect us from him.

"The inspiration for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest came while Kesey was working the night shift with Gordon Lish at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital. There, Kesey often spent time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the
hallucinogenic drugs he had volunteered to experiment with. He did not believe these patients were insane, but rather that society had pushed them out because they did not fit conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act and behave."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey

Kesey has woven through my life in many ways. I met him a few times and I've been on his old farm more than once. If you watch carefully you can see my grandfather in his other movie, which was filmed in and around my home time.

TB

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On Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 5:26:36 PM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:

https://oshmuseum.org/

It's the Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health. I didn't know it existed. I was already planning a visit to the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem Oregon. This stuff is only about 45 minutes away. I think this will make an excellent trip

report. :-)

https://www.willametteheritage.org/

(Sympathy for the Devil is playing in the background.)

This story requires a bit of explanation. I was in that building back when it was a going concern, around the time One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was published. I was a young teenager and we were visiting Father Bob. Father Bob had had some sort of

breakdown. I was always surprised they let us in. Even back then I had already started to suspect that my mother and her three children were part of what caused this. The short explanation is that my mother had good intentions and we were all young
heathens.

Father Bob had been a popular young Episcopal priest. He was just genuinely a nice person. He disappeared from our life soon after this. I hope he found a profession that made him happy.

So anyhow, some older woman with a very severe uniform guided us through several locked doors to a big room were we met Father Bob. He seemed the same as always. Looking back I strongly suspect that he had experienced a crisis of faith. The locked

doors were only there to protect him from other people. They weren't there to protect us from him.

"The inspiration for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest came while Kesey was working the night shift with Gordon Lish at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital. There, Kesey often spent time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the

hallucinogenic drugs he had volunteered to experiment with. He did not believe these patients were insane, but rather that society had pushed them out because they did not fit conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act and behave."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey

Kesey has woven through my life in many ways. I met him a few times and I've been on his old farm more than once. If you watch carefully you can see my grandfather in his other movie, which was filmed in and around my home time.

TB

While in college, I did an internship for the Blue Canyon Foundation, on Lake Whatcom, outside Bellingham, WA. It was a group home for about 20 older, harmless crazy geezers... They were all cast offs from other institutions... The state provided
$20 per month to each of them, and the CEO of Blue Canyon acted like Santa Claus, passing out the money to them... Another intern, & I were in charge of taking a dozen of them in a bus, on a shopping trip downtown, where they could buy anything they
wanted with that money of their own... What an adventure! Years later, I recalled it vividly, when I saw the fishing trip in the film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"....

Dr. Malfi Jr.

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Technobarbarian <technobarbarian@gmail.com> wrote:

https://oshmuseum.org/

It's the Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health. I didn't know
it existed. I was already planning a visit to the Willamette Heritage
Center in Salem Oregon. This stuff is only about 45 minutes away. I think this will make an excellent trip report. :-)

https://www.willametteheritage.org/

(Sympathy for the Devil is playing in the background.)

This story requires a bit of explanation. I was in that building
back when it was a going concern, around the time One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest was published. I was a young teenager and we were visiting Father Bob. Father Bob had had some sort of breakdown. I was always
surprised they let us in. Even back then I had already started to suspect that my mother and her three children were part of what caused this. The short explanation is that my mother had good intentions and we were all young heathens.

Father Bob had been a popular young Episcopal priest. He was just genuinely a nice person. He disappeared from our life soon after this. I
hope he found a profession that made him happy.

So anyhow, some older woman with a very severe uniform guided us through several locked doors to a big room were we met Father Bob. He
seemed the same as always. Looking back I strongly suspect that he had experienced a crisis of faith. The locked doors were only there to
protect him from other people. They weren't there to protect us from him.

"The inspiration for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest came while Kesey was working the night shift with Gordon Lish at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital. There, Kesey often spent time talking to the patients,
sometimes under the influence of the hallucinogenic drugs he had
volunteered to experiment with. He did not believe these patients were insane, but rather that society had pushed them out because they did not
fit conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act and behave."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey

Kesey has woven through my life in many ways. I met him a few
times and I've been on his old farm more than once. If you watch
carefully you can see my grandfather in his other movie, which was filmed
in and around my home time.

TB

You mean that’s not your residence?

--
Liberals suffer from cognitive dissonance. They know their political views
are wrong but they stick with them anyway.

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