Charlie Clarke: And the Closing of a State Hospital - Paperback

Vandeweghe, Richard: - Richard VanDeWeghe is Professor Emeritus of English from the University of Colorado, Denver. He has published numerous articles and three books-Engaged Learning (2009), a theory of instruction and practical guide for learning across the curriculum; Jimmy Quinn (2018) and Lucy Greene (2020) historical fiction that are Books One and Two of the Traverse City State Hospital Series. Charlie Clarke is the third and final book in the series. Each bookseeks to capture the struggles of the State Hospital, its staff and its patients in a particular era: Jimmy Quinn takes place in the early '50s, when the Hospital was forced to eliminate its farm and livestock programs and prohibited patients from working on the farm and in the stables; Lucy Greene takes place during the '60s influxof big pharma that lavished broad promises that their medications would heal mental illness; Charlie Clarke is set in the late '70s, at a time when the hospital was forced to close and its patients were released to their "homes of origin." Richard lives in Traverse City, Michigan.