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Informally, in dozens of residential-treatment facilities around the country, some of this occurs in any case. David Tribble, head of the Bethesda Home for Boys outside Savannah, Georgia, insists, "We're not an orphanage. That's not what we do." Yet at least one child lived at Bethesda for 14 years, and stays of four or five years are not uncommon there and at similar institutions around the country. The trend's most adventurous examples are, coincidentally or not, in Illinois. Hephzibah Children's Association, named after a biblical benefactor, operates a small facility funded by the mostly well...
...term residential care, whether the word orphanage is attached to them or not. "Steve's" mother gave him up, but she did so only because she was dying of cancer. When he was eight, she sent him to the Bethesda Home, a 50-child establishment on the banks of Savannah's Moon River, which was erected on the site of an orphanage by the same name founded in 1740. The grounds are dotted with live oaks, a herd of cattle roams its own 100-acre pasture, and there is an Olympic-size pool. But there are also intensive instruction...
...book did, the TV movie whisks us along on Scarlett O'Hara's unsuspenseful journey to self-actualization. As it happens, this requires stops in no fewer than 53 locations. Scarlett moves about from Atlanta to Charleston, from Savannah to Ireland, chasing Rhett, making a fortune in real estate, succoring rebel peasants and raising a child. Predictably a postfeminist heroine, she is self-sufficient and sexually assertive yet at the same time sweetly vulnerable. Ultimately, she gets her man, all the while remaining kind, politically concerned and mesmerizingly thin...
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Although playwright Josh Oppenheimer '96 informs us in the program that Armillaria Bulbosa and the Savannah Baboon "is about the packaging of a subconscious for public consumption," his package is definately hard to swallow...