Now that you have seen where the staff and their families lived, it’s time to see how they lived and played.
You have read and even heard that the Northern State campus was not just a hospital but also a community.
A community that shared in sorrow, as well as joy. They cared for one another and learned, and that is what made them so outstanding.
When most people think of state hospitals what usually comes to mind is depression. But that is not all that there was. Once upon a time there was a community within a community that thrived.
Northern State Hospital Book 