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Checked off a bucket list item, and experienced a late-night tour of Waverly Hills Sanatorium, in Louisville, KY. Waverly opened in 1910, to house patients suffering from tuberculosis, and closed in 1961 when medical advancements rendered the building obsolete.
The building's Gothic architecture is quite beautiful, but is home to an overwhelming amount of sadness. Estimates suggest more than 30-thousand have taken their last breaths here.
I didn't get to see the front of the building, so below is from the rear. The sections missing (where you might expect to see) windows is intentional design, as is the shape of the structure. There was a belief that unrestricted sunlight and fresh air were vital parts of the treatment process.
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Kris Lantz wrote: The sections missing (where you might expect to see) windows is intentional design, as is the shape of the structure. There was a belief that unrestricted sunlight and fresh air were vital parts of the treatment process.
That would be a bit harsh on winter... brbrbrbrrr
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That was the standard treatment for tuberculosis in the 50s. The patients were in bed but all the windows were kept open. If the weather was not too bad then their beds were wheeled out of the wards into the hospital grounds. People were made of sterner stuff in those days.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: People were made of sterner stuff in those days.
I am not a Sissy, but still, winter here (and I suppose there) is not that easy. If you have not the possibility to be some hours a day in a somehow tempered room you end up bad.
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I agree, although winter in the UK is generally less cold than it was when I was walking to school 70 years ago.
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Was walking to and from school in England uphill both ways, as it was for me?
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We lived on the lower side of a hill, so the walk to school was downhill until about half way and then flat. Uphill on the way home, but you never really noticed at that age.
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I can't say one way or the other... yet. The nighttime tour group was a bit too large to have anything exciting happen, I think. I'd like to go back with a smaller group and stay through the night, to see what sorts of experiences are to be had.
I hadn't seen the Ghost Files investigation of the place, so thank you for the link.
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Beautifully renovated monastery on the banks of the river Mosel near Zeltingen, the restaurant is worth a visit too as they serve nice big schnitzels at an affordable price. View Google review[^]
and they brew their own beer:
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Remnant of a bastion of the enormous Mont-Royal fortress near Traben-Trarbach, it was the biggest fortification at the time (1690). Sadly only parts of it remain as the Sun King ordered it's destruction after the treaty of Rijswijk. View Google review[^]
View Mont-Royal Google Photo's[^]
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Something odd there; the image dose not show in your message, but it does show in this reply.
Caching I assume ...
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Nice!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Governor Printz Park is the site of the first permanent settlement (1643) in present Pennsylvania, and it was the Swedish Capitol called the Printzhof. It is about a 5 minute drive from my house. My wife and I enjoy walking around the park. This day was very unusual as the Delaware River was so flat and calm that it looked more like a lake than a river.
(This picture is greatly reduced in size as the first time I tried it, it failed to transfer because it's normal size (4000x3000) was too large. So this is a test at (1024x768)
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I've recently begun experimenting with a new hobby, RC Rock Crawlers. The weather was too lovely to pass up on this last Sunday, so I took two of my kids on a 1/18th scale overlanding trip. It was quite an enjoyable adventure, and they're looking forward to the next.
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Meanwhile, in central Alberta :
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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That looks lovely, but I'd only want it to stick around long enough to build a proper snowman. 
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Shoveling 15cm of snow at -20C is not lovely. Not at my age, anyway. Winter here will probably hang on until at least the end of March, so plenty of time to build a Snowman.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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k5054 wrote: Shoveling 15cm
We had 45 cm in one night this winter... I am younger but it still took me almost 4 hours to free the exit of the garage and the pedestrians way surrounding our fence. After that I had armache for days.
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Looks like fun Kris. Where did you take this adventure?
Best wishes - Craig
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We were at one of my local state parks, within Tennessee's Cherokee National Forest. There are some absolutely beautiful places to detox along the Appalachian Mountains.
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In the early 70's (I was a young nerdy teenager) my father's employer (Control Data Corp.) moved our family from Maryland to Minnesota.
Mom and Dad always talked of moving back east after retirement - hoping to live in Virginia or the Carolinas. They loved the beautiful old mountains and hills.
Grandchildren and other stuff changed their plans and they never left Minnesota. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I was on a flight to Phoenix yesterday, and I saw this outside the airplane window! 
It's a good thing I was able to take a photo.
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It that a really tall Rothchild's Giraffe, or is he in the Patio Section?[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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