How Eastern State Hospital in the Williamsburg area influenced mental health policy for 250 years
A small ceramic cup, painstakingly reassembled, sits in a glass case five feet above the floor of the Public Hospital Museum in Williamsburg. Historian Kelly Brennans loves this artifact from the excavation of the original Public Hospital for the Insane and Mentally Disordered, as it was called when it opened on October 12, 1773, as … Read more