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By Darby Penney and Peter Stastny. 205 pp., illustrated. New York, Bellevue Literary Press, 2008. $25. ISBN 978-1-934137-07-9.

When the Willard Psychiatric Center, overlooking Seneca Lake in upstate New York, closed in 1995, a curator from the New York State Museum in Albany roamed the grounds, looking from building to building to see if there were any artifacts worth keeping before the buildings were demolished. In the sheltered workshop building, off a steep staircase leading up to the attic, was a large room with a central corridor that separated rows of wooden racks filled with suitcases of all shapes and sizes — 427 of them — all belonging to former patients who had been admitted between 1900 and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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