Leprosy Hospital and River Road

This video takes you to the end of a dead end road, alongside the Mississippi river, in Carville, Louisiana. The national leprosarium was a place were people were forced to go, made to stay, left and sometimes forgotten. It was a place of disease and pain. It was also a place of great compassion, love, life and community.

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I am a stay-at-home dad with four kids. I am obsessed with my 1976 Volkswagen Bus "Willie"! I make vlogs about what's going on in my ADD mind, catch the kids being cute, I do special project vids and gush about my bus-love! If you think that sounds random, you should see my channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/busvlogger and... you know SUBSCRIBE!!! Here's one of my favorites, where I explain where twins come from... well, sorta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N0TFg70jV0

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[konamarie]

I always wanted to see what the place looked like. Thank you so much for posting.

[busvlogger]

@konamarie I was so moved by my visit there. I'm very glad that you enjoyed it. They have a great museum there. You should contact them for more information. They used to publish a magazine/newspaper on site. The museum has re-printed copies that give a glimpse of what life must have been like there.

[konamarie]

My Grandmother Francis Barquilla was there from 1924 till she died there in Oct 1951, after they gave her 33 shock treatments, I just resently got the paperwork. She ran away once because she was about to have a baby and make to the Farrie Building in San Francisco where she gave birth. San Francisco was where her family was. She was draged back there and kept in restraints. The baby Mary lived for a year....Oh so much more I could tell you, and oh how sad. I hope your at peace now Grandma

[busvlogger]

@konamarie Wow! What a sad story! Now they know that very few people can catch the disease! Of course, there are treatments that stop the progression and keep the affected from being contagious too! To have your freedome taken away like that, terrible.

[CopyyyCat]

Oh, and I don't have any ideas as to what you should do with your vlogs,

BUT PLEASE,... PLEASE

don't ever eat sour flavored watermelon candy again!

xD

[busvlogger]

@CopyyyCat He he he he!!! I didn't fake it, by the way...

[TheWhodat27]

That place is haunted I been there for 6 months in ycp I heard a lot of stories there

[TheWhodat27]

I was there 10 years ago in youth challenge program for 6 months

[konamarie]

Thank you. I will do that. By the way your little girl is sooo cute,,,and your V W. I owned on in the early 70'S 

[tackettsmillfarm]

I do believe this is the first video I have seen on YouTube that shows Carville and the Gillis Long Center. The facility was never a juvenile detention center, but I can understand why you may think that. The Louisiana National Guard now runs the Center and the Youth Challenge Program, which is a program that gives at-risk youth a military environment where they finish their high school diplomas and begin vocational training is housed at Carville along with a few National Guard units. Thanks

[busvlogger]

@CopyyyCat I hear you. Personally, I am not interested in being religous. I am interested in becoming more like Christ. People that don't get it, often hurt the cause of Christ more than they help it.