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Table of Contents
About the Author and The Contributors ...p. iv
Acknowledgments ...p. vii
Foreword ...p. x
Introduction ...p.xiii
"And travelers now..." ...p. xv
Dedication ...p. xvi
Chapter 1: The Hill's Terrible Beauty ...p.1
Chapter 2: Good Intent, Terrible Cost ...p. 9
Chapter 3: Superior Confinement 27 Chapter 4: Prisoners Of The System ...p. 45
Chapter 5: A Curious Kind of Life ...p.57
Chapter 6: The Evils Of Overcrowding ...p.101
Chapter 7: Invasion Of The Brain ...p.121
Chapter 8: Bedlam! ...p.145
Chapter 9: Haunted ...p.171
Chapter 10: Visions Of A Dark Queen ...p.183
Chapter 11: Echoes From The Ruins ...p.201
Chapter 12: Testimonials To Desolation ...p.217
Epilogue ...p. 235
References / Bibliography ...p.238
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About Michael Ramseur: artist, writer, and social worker

Ramseur has been working in the field of human services for eighteen years, with most of that time spent on acute psychiatric units. Hewas until recently Director of Social Services at Baldpate Hospital in Georgetown, MA. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, CT. (1970), the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for several years during the mid-1970's, and the Simmons College School of Social Work in 1991.
A pastel artist for 27 years, Ramseur has focused on a range of subjects, including riders on the MBTA subway system in Boston, the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, ME (now defunct), the textile mills in the Merrimack Valley (particularly Lawrence, MA.), and Danvers State Hospital. Ramseur has been drawing and writing about Danvers since 1986. He has been in numerous group and one-man art shows in Boston and the surrounding region. He has appeared on NECN in the context of USA film production, "Session 9", in which he was interviewed, with photographer Jeremy Barnard and sculptor Andrew Chulyk, in the DVD featurette "The Haunted Palace". Ramseur had a commissioned drawing on the St. Elizabeth Hospital published in the April, 1999 issue of THE NEW YORKER magazine in connection with an article on John Hinckley, Jr. by Elsa Walsh titled "Strange Love".
He has devoted a major part of his adult life to observing and recording the history, evolution, moods, and destiny of the Mental Asylum at Danvers as an artist, a mental health care professional, and an historian. With this book he delivers a deeply-researched and comprehensive portrait of the asylum that has housed, inspired, cured, terrified and brutalized us for over 100 years, and which-- in spite of its stately beauty and its position on the National Historic Register--has recently been sold by the State of Massachusetts to a developer which has largely demolished it.
Included in this book are the passions, memories, reflections, visions, and fantasies of scores of those who have explored this institution, who worked and cared for its patients, whose friends and relatives were housed there, who made films and art there, whose families were raised there, and who cared deeply about its fate.
Ramseur, who resides on the northern coast of Massachusetts, is the proud father of a daughter, Georgia Bennett-Ramseur, who is studying music and the performing arts.
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other books by this author:
ASYLUM ON THE HILL
THE EYE OF DANVERS
...and in 2008...THE SPIRIT OF ANTOINETTE
this author's video collaborations:
*VORTEX with Charles I. Durgin and Trina Regan (available on DVD)
*PALACE OF SHADOWS with Richard Gavin (available on DVD)
and GHOST OF THE WITCH JUDGE with Justin Lassen and Trina Ragan
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