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What is the significance of the old asylum in Jackson's history?
And the patients would come out on the front lawn. But as the city moved that way, they had to borrow the porches because they became a buggy problem. Well, they would get out and show out on the lawn and people would stop riding around.
Oh, buggy. Oh, I thought human insects.
Oh, no.
No, horse and buggy.
Over the course of the old asylum's life, it grew. Jackson grew around it. Its story unspooled, threads joining the tapestry of ever-expanding daily life in central Mississippi. Back at the State Hospital Museum, Donna Brown and Kathy Denton showed us around a room full of photos and memorabilia from the old asylum.
There are a lot of stories, too. If you look closely at the picture, you can see there's a road that turns here and circles up close to the building. Sunday afternoons in Jackson, it was a common, fun thing to do to go picnic on the grounds and watch the, quote, crazy people.
After the old asylum shuttered its doors when its buildings were torn down in the 50s, the stories died down for a bit, too. But with the rediscovery of the Asylum Hills Cemetery, the lore is also coming back to life. Asylum Hills' Lyda Gibson even has her own.
Well, the first time I heard about the old asylum, was from my mother. My mother is still with us. She is 95 years old, but she remembers as a child driving through the gravel driveway in front of the asylum on Sunday afternoons and waving at the patients. We've had lots of people who've come from the community and said, yeah, oh yeah, that was like the place to go.
For the most part, the stories that survive are the ones that lean into the Southern Gothic of it all. Here's Bill Lee, Wayne's cousin.
I knew that the old asylum was there because I've talked to friends that are a little older than I am that remember the asylum. I remember one of my friends, I never will forget, he would walk past it a lot of times at night. and hear those poor souls. I remember that expression he used, I could hear those poor souls wailing in the asylum.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the significance of the old asylum in Jackson's history?
2:08–12:03
2
Who is Kimberly Jackson and what is her connection to Zinnie?
12:03–17:16
3
How did the family of Zinnie cope with her loss?
17:16–18:35
4
What role does the Asylum Hills Cemetery play in the community today?
18:35–55:05