{"id":516,"date":"2009-05-01T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2009-05-01T23:23:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T03:23:56","slug":"behind-the-walls-shadows-of-new-englands-asylums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/behind-the-walls-shadows-of-new-englands-asylums","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Walls &#8211; Shadows of New England&#8217;s Asylums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2009\/05\/01\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Behind the Walls - Shadows of New England's Asylums book cover\" width=\"484\" height=\"370\" \/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a new book out by <a title=\"Kate Broderick Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.katebroderickphotography.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">photographer Katherine Anderson<\/a> featuring photographs of several former New England asylums, including the Kirkbide buildings in <a title=\"Danvers State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/danvers.html\">Danvers<\/a>, <a title=\"Worcester State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/worcester.html\">Worcester<\/a>, and <a title=\"Northampton State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/northampton.html\">Northampton<\/a>, Massachusetts. In addition to the pictures, the book also contains an extensive history of mental illness and asylums as well as &#8220;feeble-mindedness&#8221; and the state school system. The book is called <a title=\"Buy Behind the Walls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asylumaveartists.com\/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Behind the Walls &#8211; Shadows of New England&#8217;s Asylums<\/em><\/a> and you can preview (and purchase) it here: <a title=\"Behind the Walls Preview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.katebroderickphotography.com\/\">Behind the Walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new book out by photographer Katherine Anderson featuring photographs of several former New England asylums, including the Kirkbide buildings in Danvers, Worcester, and Northampton, Massachusetts. In addition to the pictures, the book also contains an extensive history of mental illness and asylums as well as &#8220;feeble-mindedness&#8221; and the state school system. The book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,13],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized","category-pictures","tag-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}