Blood, Brains, and Lobotomies @ CRF Museum

Name: Blood, Brains, and Lobotomies @ CRF Museum — Mindy McGinnis
Start: 2021-10-18T19:00:00-0400
End: 2021-10-18T20:00:00-0400
Location: Cleo Redd Fisher Museum

Monday, October 18, 2021
7:00 PM 8:00 PM 19:00 20:00

Cleo Redd Fisher Museum 203 East Main Street Loudonville, OH 44842 United States (map)

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Join us at the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum!

Author Mindy McGinnis shares the research behind her Edgar Award-winning Gothic historical thriller, A Madness So Discreet. Learn about how doctors treated brain injuries in the 1890s and the different aspects of care for the mentally ill--for better or for worse. Also included is a brief history of the Athens Lunatic Asylum, the setting for the novel.