"Nothing Thou Loved Be Lost or Die": An 1846 Quilt Made at the Vermont Asylum for the Insane

26oct6:00 pm7:00 pm"Nothing Thou Loved Be Lost or Die": An 1846 Quilt Made at the Vermont Asylum for the InsaneMember Event

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“Nothing Thou Loved Be Lost or Die”: An 1846 Quilt Made at the Vermont Asylum for the Insane

Wednesday, October 26th, at 6:00 pm

Reception for in-person guests 5:30 – 6:00 pm

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Members: Free, Nonmembers: $10

One hundred and seventy-six years ago, two women from different socio-economic backgrounds were committed to a new insane asylum in Vermont. Less than four months later, one of those inmates made and gifted a friendship quilt to the other bearing the inked words “Insane Hospital.” Join scholars Charlene Bongiorno Stephens and William Stephens for a discussion of the history of their quilt and its importance as an artifact of the then-revolutionary “moral treatment” for mental illnesses. The Vermont Asylum Quilt is currently on display in the Library Company’s exhibition, Hearing Voices: Memoirs from the Margins of Mental Health.

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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT-04:00)

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