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Asylum Inmates Kept Busy with Fishing, Fancy Painting, Bass Ball, Etc.

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City/State/Country: Charlestown, MA, United States
Game Bass Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Text

"The males are also engaged at bowls, quoits, bass ball, fishing, fancy painting, walking dancing, reading, swinging, and throwing the ring."

 

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"Lady Manners", "Moral Management of the Insane," The Friend: a Religious and Literary Journal, Volume 11, Number 38 (June 23, 1838), page 303. Submitted by John Thorn.

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This was originally from the report of the McLean Asylum in Charlestown, MA, published in the Boston Messenger, March 9, 1837.

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