Click Here to Read: A Whitewashed Monument to Women’s Suffrage: A sculpture that’s expected to be unveiled in Central Park next year ignores the important contributions of black women By Brent Staples in the New York Times on May 14, 2019.
Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house. The first picket line – College day in the picket line line, 1917. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
For Immediate Release: The Austen Riggs Center to Open “The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health,” A Special Exhibition in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Public Opening Set for Sunday, May 26, 2019
Exhibition Chronicles 100 Years of Austen Riggs, Explores the History of Mental Health Treatment, and Aims to Help Diminish Stigma that Often Surrounds Mental Illness
Stockbridge, MA – April 30, 2019 – The Austen Riggs Center is proud to announce the new exhibition, “The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health,” over Memorial Day Weekend. The exhibition will be located in the newly renovated annex of the Old Corner House in Stockbridge, and chronicles the history of Riggs, from its founding by Dr. Austen Fox Riggs in 1919, to its current position as a leading psychiatric Continue reading The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health at Austen Riggs
