Posted on 11/13/2015 11:40:29 AM PST by lbryce
On a 17-acre plot adjacent to the University of Alabama were a farm, a corn crib, a stable, and a building to house the people who kept all of those things running. The building was a sprawling white structure with a library and a dance hall and rooms for the people who plowed the fields, shucked the corn, and raised the pigs. It was the first building in Tuscaloosa to have steam heating or gas lighting.
It was also a hospital for the mentally ill, the first of its kind in Alabama. And from 1872 to 1881, it was the headquarters of the Meteor, a newspaper written, edited, and published entirely by patients and circulated beyond the hospital walls.
The paper was named after the patients’ own expectations for it: “Meteors are always a surprise,†the first issue explained, and “so doubtless will be our little sheet. They appear at regular intervals. So will it.†Whenever it appeared, though—quarterly at first, more sporadically in its later years—the paper offered its readers a clear-eyed look at life inside the hospital—and, by extension, a window into a grand new experiment in mental-health treatment.
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I thought the heading was referring to the NY Slimes.
Yes, it’s called The Congressional Record.
The New York Times???
Isn’t that who they use to put out daily WH press releases???
Um, All of them?
Pretty much Liberal staffs nationwide.
Well done. I like your response better than my own.
Actually check your history. The paper was the predecessor to the NY Slimes and the Washington Compost.
We knew that all along.
Just like a White House Staffed Entirely By Mental-Health Patients
Yeah. Redundant.
Mental-health patients or mentally ill patients?
The White Hut is a Nut Hut, and the NY Slimes is it’s running dog.
Mental Health patient is the politically correct way of referring to the mentally ill.
And “The Meteor” was probably far more intellectually-honest, and possibly more coherent, than the MSM fishwrap we’re expected to believe today.
All-righty then!
It’s the in-house organ of the Associated Press.
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