SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Thousands of people wanting an inside look at the Willard Psychiatric State Hospital were turned away Saturday as crowds overwhelmed an annual fundraiser -- for a children's ...

She shed light on marginalized people’s lives by examining the contents of suitcases left in the attic of a psychiatric hospital ... the old Willard Psychiatric Center in the Finger Lakes ...

Over several decades, an immigrant dug more than 1,500 graves for his fellow patients at Willard State Psychiatric Hospital in upstate New York. He took pride in his shovel’s precision.

The Willard group is appealing the FOIL decision ... fear discrimination if people learn a loved one had been at a psychiatric hospital. Officials with the state Office of Mental Health are ...

But what ultimately challenges you to ponder your own conceptions of what’s normal, and if you spend the time, breaks your heart, comes from a remarkable find: 427 suitcases, long forgotten in the ...

"The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic" is a nationally ... held the personal possessions of one of Willard's psychiatric patients from the late 19th and early 20th ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — If you had to leave your friends, family and life as you knew it, what would you pack? That's what Issue Box Theatre's "The Willard Suitcases" asks in a deeply poignant and ...