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By Kathy Aney, East Oregonian, April 27, 2013 The article is the fourth in a series on mental health. In recent days, the East Oregonian has written about state plans to close Blue Mountain Recovery Center in January and local efforts to save the mental hospital from extinction. This story is a look at how […]
Harry Lane – physician, advocate for women’s and Native American rights, two-time mayor of Portland, Federal senator, dapper fellow and superintendent of the Oregon State Insane Asylum. He hired the first female police officer, Lola Baldwin, in the US. He also hired sculptress Alice Cooper to create Oregon’s finest statue – Sacajawea, located in Portland’s […]
By Kirk Johnson, The New York Times, March 31, 2013 Nurse Ratched slept here. The punctiliously cruel psychiatric ward tyrant in the book and movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was brought to cinematic life by the actress Louise Fletcher during filming here at the Oregon State Hospital in the 1970s. But the melding […]
Column by Margie Boule, published in The Oregonian April 8, 1999 Today, a pop quiz: What do Madonna, the first editor of The Oregonian, juvenile delinquents and the sister of a mysterious madam have in common? I wandered through the answer on a sunny morning not long ago. Back in the early 1900s, the owner […]
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