Christmas at Cherokee State Hospital
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
It’s a little late, but yesterday the Cherokee Chronicle Times posted a 100 year-old description of Christmas celebrations at Cherokee State Hospital. The description makes up the first five paragraphs of their latest “Times Gone By” section here: Times Gone By.
I did a quick search to see if there were any other pieces about the hospital on the site, but there wasn’t much of interest. The only thing worth mentioning is this other “Times Gone By” article from 2007 which coincidentally compares Santa’s Workshop with Cherokee State Hospital’s buildings.
In the first place [Santa] has a huge factory, bigger than all of the buildings at the Cherokee state hospital, and in it hundreds and hundreds of gnomes are busy making up huge bags full of toys, dolls, games, sleds, airplanes and just everything else that you can think of that will make little boys and girls happy.
