Showing posts with label South. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South. Show all posts

Friday, 11 September 2015

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness



The incredible story of the treatment of the mentally ill in a Deep South state, which produced one of the first state mental hospitals in the US and also the Civil War. A state which one of its brightest men, James Louis Petigru, said was "too small to be a republic and too big to be a lunatic asylum."