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Alice’s Story, Part 2: The Exeter School

Exeter School, Superintendent's House and Administration. Rhode Island School for the Feeble-Minded in Exeter. Report. Providence: 1910.
Exeter School, Superintendent’s House and Administration. Rhode Island School for the Feeble-Minded in Exeter. Report. Providence: 1910.

In Part 1 of Alice’s story, I wrote about my great-aunt Alice Tillotson, who was a teenager when she was dropped off at the Oaklawn School for Girls around 1902.  After she turned 21, she was transferred to the State Alms House.  In 1913, she was admitted to the Rhode Island School for the Feeble-Minded in Exeter, Rhode Island.  It was there that she spent the rest of her life. Continue reading Alice’s Story, Part 2: The Exeter School