41 Lunatics Burned to Death
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 354 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger visit Dover, New Hampshire, to see the memorial to the Strafford County Lunatic Asylum fire. On February 9, 1893, a fire ravaged the old asylum building killing 41 people inside. The tragedy was an epic failure of a system meant to protect the most vulnerable.
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| 0:00.0 | Jeff this is a lovely little spot here in Dover, New Hampshire. |
| 0:04.2 | Yeah, it definitely is. |
| 0:05.6 | So right now we're walking behind a massive complex of buildings that includes an old folks home, |
| 0:10.8 | the Stratford County Department of Corrections, and there's paths to walk down to the banks of the |
| 0:14.9 | Cochico River, plenty of trees, but our destination is up this small hill on our left. |
| 0:20.5 | All right, well I see what looks like a kind of headstone monument with an urn on the top. Yep, that's the spot. It was near here that a horrible tragedy claimed a lot of lives. I know we often need to put tragic events behind us in order to move on but at least we |
| 0:35.3 | sometimes leave some kind of memorial behind to the fallen. |
| 0:38.8 | It's something to say they lived here and died here and hopefully they didn't die in vain. |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah I know what you mean. |
| 0:43.8 | We can't mourn anything forever, |
| 0:45.6 | but we should also never forget. |
| 0:47.6 | It's tough to know where the balance is. |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah, it definitely is. |
| 0:51.0 | Now quite often the most vulnerable people in our communities are the first stories to be lost to history. |
| 0:56.0 | We're here to check out one such story. We're in Dover, New Hampshire to visit the site of the Dover Insane Asylum Fire. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 1:10.0 | And I'm Ray Oje. |
| 1:11.0 | Welcome to episode 354 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:15.0 | And thanks for joining us on our mission |
| 1:17.0 | to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time. |
| 1:20.0 | It's a mission we can't accomplish without you. |
| 1:22.0 | So please contact us through our website anytime |
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