Bryce Hospital (the old one Faulkner would mention from time to time)

[zdover]

One of the two buildings which together are Bryce Hospital, the 19th century insane asylum for the Southeastern region of North America, burned down on the morning of February 8, 2009.

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[kimchi_nation]

The large white building?

[diamondduste]

Is this Old Bryce or the current complex?

[zdover]

Old Bryce

[gregpdotcc]

I suspect foul play

[zdover]

Well, the University's trying to buy the land so that they can put more buildings on it to house future students. The destruction of a structure on the property lowers the property value. It's a convenient time for the University for that building to burn down, because it makes the cost of the property lower and means that the University will have to spend less money to acquire it.

[grosely_clerx]

I was on the fence, between Foul Play and Stupid Vading Teenagers, but now I'm convOH MY GOD GREG PATTERSON'S ON THE LIVEJOURNAL.

[grosely_clerx]

Hm. Well, not really. Oh, well.

[circumgoy]

If Zelda Fitzgerald hadn't burned to death in that North Carolina mental institution in the forties, if she had been moved back to her home state to finish out her insanity in the only Alabama asylum worth its quality-of-life-demeaning salt, if she had lived to be 108 1/2, and if her 108 1/2-year-old body had been locked in Old Bryce on 8 February 2009 the way she had been locked in her room in that North Carolina mental institution, maybe news of this might have reached me by some means other than LiveJournal.

I can't even find a news story on the Tuscaloosa News website.

[circumgoy]

I did, however, find a link to the following article near the bottom when I clicked on the "News" tab:

Whose smarter, Limbaugh or Hannity?

I thought it might just be an unfortunate typographical error, but it was repeated as the header for the actual article/blog entry.