As a new Dix park gathers momentum, site’s history provides complex context - North Carolina Health News
As planning continues for a destination park on the site of the former Dorothea Dix Hospital, former employees looked back on what made the facility special and how it should be remembered.
By Thomas Goldsmith As the 308-acre Raleigh campus of Dorothea Dix Hospital is being transformed into a destination park, former employees remember it not only as a haven for people with mental illness but also as a nearly self-sufficient small town. Their memories detail many instances of caring treatment by Dix professionals. But the Dix […]
