Here’s another cabinet he made, using an old shutter for the door. I just love how you can tell that the wood has some age to it. Isn’t that wood gorgeous? The inside was my favorite part.
My favorite piece that day was this gorgeous pie safe, fashioned from recycled oak fence boards. In fact, they get a good bit of merchandise from Amish wholesalers in and around Lancaster. The Beard’s shop is very much like the country stores in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Of course, you can go all by yourself, if you prefer, or with some other friend/family member. If you’re a local, or coming to visit for a bit, and want to see this place, I’d be more than happy to take you. Since I was the only customer that day, I asked Amy if she’d mind my grabbing some photos so I could share this little treasure of a place with you folks. I haven’t taken pictures before because it’s usually full of people. I dropped in on my way to the farm last weekend, hoping to find a gift for a friend. I’ve met Amy, a very nice lady who is usually running the place, but haven’t met Butch, who does a lot of the woodworking. Country Corner Woodworking & Antiques is owned by Amy and Butch Beard. I stumbled across this adorable little store while looking for another antique shop I’d seen advertised. Country Corner Woodworking & Antiques in Calverton, Virginia Which is why I was so delighted to discover this place a year or so ago, only about 15 minutes from my house in Calverton. And I REALLY enjoy country stores that also sell antiques and local, hand-crafted merchandise.
Fancy doesn’t “fit” in my house.Īlthough I’m not a huge shopper, I do enjoy a good country store.
I have some antiques mixed in, too, but simple stuff. By primitive, I mean folk art-type stuff, with dark, muted colors on pieces that are a bit old, rustic and/or rough. That same year, ten years, after Virginia passed its sterilization act, Joseph DeJarnette, superintendent of Virginia’s Western State Hospital, observed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, “The Germans are beating us at our own game.Those of you who know me well know that I lean toward a somewhat primitive, country-style decor. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought.…I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people.” Goethe upon returning from Germany ebulliently bragged to a key colleague, “You will be interested to know, that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. In 1934, as Germany’s sterilizations were accelerating beyond 5,000 per month, the California eugenics leader C. The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
DeJarnette Sanitarium (1932-96) now sits vacant on the Frontier Culture Museum property. DeJarnette’s name because of his discredited history. The new facility was named the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents by state officials in 2001, after the General Assembly refused to use Dr. 250 from the former DeJarnette Center in 1996. A new children’s psychiatric hospital was constructed on the Western State Hospital campus across U.S. In 1972, in order to serve children with severe emotional disorders, the facility was renamed the DeJarnette Center. DeJarnette advocated legal sterilizations of those unable to support themselves because of a mental condition and those who were “syphilitic, epileptic, imbeciles and drunkards.” DeJarnette was superintendent of the renamed Western State Hospital from 1906-43. Stribling was one of the first superintendent's of the Western Lunatic Asylum.ĭr. The Western Lunatic Asylum opened in Staunton in 1828 as the official repository.ĭr. Tim Kaine will be on hand for the groundbreaking on a new psychiatric hospital that continues a long Virginia tradition.įor about 200 years, lunatics were sent to Staunton.