Click Here to Read: My Family’s Dark, Hidden History With Institutionalization: My great-great-grandfather was the namesake of an infamous institution for the disabled. From long-neglected records of the property, the lives of forgotten people were uncovered on the Nation Magazine substack on October 17, 2026.
Walter E. Fernald State School, now the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Image: Daderot. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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