Snowing now. In Melancholy Lars is made to shovel snow in Gaustad Asylum. December 2 Tuesday here. "These uneducated lunatics can shovel snow . . . ." They all throw snowballs at him. I'm already on page 227 and I have not even looked up to see if Lars Hertevig was a real painter!!! My goodness. Feb 16, 1830 to Jan 6, 1902 His semi-fantasticalwork regarded as one of the peaks of Norwegian painting. Not autistic but likely schizophrenic. Christmas eve. page 235 It was Nov-Dec when they put me into Eugenia Memorial for a week or so. Snowy weather when they drove me in the station wagon from Elkins Park out west toward the Main Line or so I figured. Imagined the map perhaps. So it was West but not as far as the Main Line.
In 1967, the facility was known as
Eugenia Hospital (not "Memorial Clinic") and was located in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania. The address at the time was likely near the current 660 Thomas Road location. Lafayette Hill is a community within the Philadelphia region, in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County. The hospital later closed, and investors planned to create senior housing at the site in the early 2000s. Another related entity, potentially a satellite or a different facility with a similar name, was also noted in Pottstown, PA, which is also now closed.
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