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The Ladd School: Back Wards, Blue Rooms

The Ladd School: Back Wards, Blue RoomsThe Ladd School: Back Wards, Blue Rooms (book)

Print: $13.95

In 2 parts, Back Wards, Blue Rooms tells the 86-year history of the Ladd School, capturing the spirit of its mystery and revealing the reasons for its infamy. Part 1 describes the institution's rise from a farm colony of 8 inhabitants to a sprawling behemoth of brick and mortar holding 1,000 souls. In 4 fascinating chapters the story unfolds, bringing together the author's narration, historical texts, and the very words of Dr. Ladd himself. Part 2 portrays the fall of the Ladd School spanning nearly four decades marred by scandal and public disfavor.In another 4 starkly revealing chapters, the startling and grim details of the conditions by which the institution would earn its notoriety are disclosed for the first time since it was abandoned more than 10 years ago.Chronicling numerous cases of abuses and deaths, the controversial 2nd half of this book sounds a warning to future generations on behalf of the severe lessons learned from the dramatic and extraordinary saga of the Ladd School.
The Ladd School: American Gothic

The Ladd School: American GothicThe Ladd School: American Gothic (book)

Print: $24.95

American Gothic is a picture book featuring more than 30 captioned photographs from one of the oldest feeble-minded schools in the United States. Captured on film between the late 1950s and the late 1970s, the historical and sometimes intimate scenes they depict have been lost for decades. Now, carefully restored and reproduced in full color, they have reemerged to shed new light on this mysterious and extradordinary institution; the Ladd School.