MantenoStateHospital.com
Title
news - the manteno project
Description
I was born on August 10, 1968 and brought up in the once, small town of Greenwood, Indiana, located approximately 12 miles south of Indianapolis. I graduated Greenwood Community High School in 1987 and attended Indiana University’s Herron School of Art from 1987 to 1991 where I studied art history, fine arts and majored in painting. In 1991, I grew restless and bored with my studies, so I packed up my VW van, and fled the “bible belt” only to drift for many years, throughout the southwestern United States. I stayed a few months in Ft. Collins, Colorado, then Los Alamos, New Mexico. I lived in my van for about a year, wandering about New Mexico and eventually settling for an adobe apartment in Santa Fe where I stayed for about 2 years. After being visually starved by the desert, I moved to Denver in 1994 but by the new millennia the prairies and mountains had lost all their appeal so I moved to Chicago, Illinois. After a very busy 3 years, I became burnt out with living in the big city and moved again. I have come "full circle" and now reside in my peaceful, quiet hometown. I have also limitedly traveled abroad to England and most favorably, France.
My past is riddled with an odd assortment of occupations, including, but not limited to the areas of graphic design, accounting, gravestone design, carpentry, modeling, fine arts, food service, carriage driving, medical library, inventory control, database administration, sales and construction. Although seemingly chaotic, it has been a zealous adventure of delicious perplexities, each of which I have gained knowledge or learned my lessons from.
I am not a professional or really an intellectual, but I spend my time learning from others, investigating, researching and reading. I do not have the credentials of a psychologist, psychiatrist, sociologist, anthropologist or historian, thus I do not feel that I can write about Manteno State Hospital from any authoritative point of view. I am only one person who passionately writes, as a human transfixed with telling a story that I feel is an important part of human history and which ultimately runs the risk of being lost forever.
Contact
- Megan Designs
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- Indianapolis IN
- US 46217
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- 7737647323
