Dark Side of NH History Featured in Documentary on Amazon Prime
My goodness, the things you see on Netflix when you are just searching for something to numb out your mind.
This past weekend, I was looking for just such a thing and found "His Name is Bob," on Amazon Prime. I really like documentaries and this one looked rather intriguing. It's about a man named Bob who definitely has some developmental disabilities living in Texas. As it turns out, he comes from, you guessed it, New Hampshire. Everything comes back to the 603, I swear.
Bob and his Mother lived in NH and you find out early in the film, she had abandoned him when he was 8 years old at the Laconia State School in the Lakes Region. The school was once known as the "New Hampshire School for Feeble Minded" and has a horrible history. I grew up in Nashua and I remember hearing stories of the Laconia School when I was growing up. I think it was my Mother who thought it was terrible that people were sent up to this awful place. To think about someone like my step-daughter Audrey, who has Down Syndrome, sent away to a place like that just breaks my heart.