Today, the former hospital houses a museum that commemorates those years and that offers information about leprosy.
Just in case you cannot hop in the car and head to Louisiana, consider one of these virtual tours.
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As James Carville says in the book's Forward, "...our little town in southern Louisiana became a model for the world, a place of hope, progress, and tolerance."Sounds much like Kalaupapa, Hawaii where my Healing Water takes place.
And BTW - this week, Linda Andersen is giving away a copy of Healing Water over at A Writer's Playground.
Thanks for this, the virtual tour was very interesting. I have always wondered about Carville and what it was like there. As I said yesterday, I read that book by Betty Martin who went there as a teenager.
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ReplyDeleteI want to get my hands on Miracle at Carville. Am glad to know the author's name.
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ReplyDeleteGlad to know about this museum. I love history. I added a link to your guest blog post to send readers here. It's great how much attention we're bringing to this topic.
Thanks Linda for linking. I just discovered a PBS documentary on Carville. Think I'm going to blog it. Hoped to find a trailer to post here but did not.
ReplyDeleteFascinating. I had no idea there had been such a hospital in NC. None of our local libraries has either book, but maybe I can find them at the university library. Thanks for letting me know about them.
ReplyDeleteRosi. Yes, maybe University library or ILL would work.
ReplyDeleteThe hospital was actually in Louisiana, though.
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