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The Willard Suitcase Exhibit Online. Excerpt 1. An exerpt from. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic. By Darby Penney and Peter Stastny Photographs by Lisa Rinzler. PROLOGUE: LIFE IN THE ATTIC. The Sheltered Workshop Building stands alone on a hill overlooking Seneca Lake next to the empty lot that once held Chapin Hall, the massive central building of . A state hospital in upstate New York closes and hundreds of suitcases are found in the attic. After everything is cataloged and researched, the authors choose ten lives to focus on. I found it amazing that some people lived in mental hospitals for forty or fifty years/5(). “The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic.” Darby Penny, Peter Stastny, Lisa Rinzler, Robert Whitaker. When Willard State Hospital closed in , after years of continuous operation, patient suitcases, filled with each patient’s personal belonging, were discovered, abandoned, in an attic/5(K).

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The Willard Suitcase Exhibit Online. Excerpt 1. An exerpt from. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic. By Darby Penney and Peter Stastny Photographs by Lisa Rinzler. PROLOGUE: LIFE IN THE ATTIC. The Sheltered Workshop Building stands alone on a hill overlooking Seneca Lake next to the empty lot that once held Chapin Hall, the massive central building of Willard State Hospital in New York. A state hospital in upstate New York closes and hundreds of suitcases are found in the attic. After everything is cataloged and researched, the authors choose ten lives to focus on. I found it amazing that some people lived in mental hospitals for forty or fifty years. Coauthor of The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, Darby Penney is a national leader in the human rights movement for people with psychiatric disabilities and a former state mental health official. An experienced trainer and qualitative researcher with a background in state mental health planning, Darby has written, presented and consulted nationally and internationally on a wide range of issues concerning empowerment, inclusion, rights, and other topics.