Hey, this is Josh Levine, the host of one year. I hope you're enjoying our season on 1955.

This week, we have another story from senior producer Evan Chung.

Growing up in Fairbanks in the 1950s, Karen Purdue says every Alaskan kid learned the same phrase.

There's only three places for you to go.

Inside, outside, or morning side.

Inside meant they'd keep living at home in Alaska.

Outside meant they'd move to the continental United States and morning side

meant morning side hospital. States. And Morningside meant Morningside Hospital, a mental institution more than 2,000 miles away in Portland, Oregon.

If you were a child and your mother or father wanted you to do something,

sometimes they would say to you,

you know, if you don't get your act together, you might be going to Mortonside.

So it was a scary place. Because if you ever needed mental health

care, Morningside is where you would be shipped off to. There were no

treatment centers in the entire American territory of Alaska.

None of those things existed. Alaska was still a very isolated territory. There just was not any care.

Morningside wasn't a government-run facility. It was a private family-owned institution,

somehow charged with taking care of every mentally ill patient from Alaska.

The process to get care at Morningside was grueling and bizarre. Step one was he had to get arrested.

It didn't matter if you wanted to go voluntarily or if your family was concerned about you.

A warrant would be put out and a U.S. Marshal would take you away.

There would be a jury of six men in Paneled to decide if you were convicted of being insane.

This wasn't a panel of experts deciding,

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