Scarlet Fever

A century ago tuberculosis was spreading throughout the United States. Known as the white plague, medical opinion at the time suggested that the fresh air had a curative effect on this disease which attacked the body’s respiratory system. Sanatoriums were established outside of major cities across the nation to separate the sick and to open them to the pure, healing air.

One of these sanatoriums was built by an order of nuns; far from the polluted cities it served only young children suffering from tuberculosis. Unbeknownst to the nuns the very treatment they provided others began to poison themselves. The lack of sewage sanitation, provided by the same city they sought to escape, slowly destroyed their tiny community.

As time passed the nuns began to come down with the scarlet fever. Young children are largely protected from the disease for reasons still not fully understood today. After the deaths of several adults the well was filled in and the living returned to the city, leaving the dead behind.

Since that dark time this building has passed through many hands. Today, like the bodies of its victims, it too has been left behind.

-2012-
sleepwalking
new chapter

-2011-
like sedona?
torn in two
blink
bridge to nowhere
door
hitting the wall
elusive 2
elusive 1
ascenders
voyage
hole
icarus

-2010-
revisited 2
revisited 1
which way?
the pit
treasure
narrow
snowfall
chute
false floor
monolith
crack
freeze
slice
bunker
beckon
treasure
resolution

-2009-
goodbyes
undercurrents
casting the bones
mountain thief
the deer hunter
strange temple
sanctuary
burial pt. 3
burial pt. 2
burial pt. 1
scarlet fever
rebirth from hell
forsaken
the lower depths
underground lake
stretch sewer
crypt
still waters
shadow movements
meager rations
sw pt.8: geothermal + ending
sw pt.7: lost gold mines
sw pt.6: big tube caves
sw pt.5: gold!
sw pt.4: el calderon caves
sw pt.3: redondo
sw pt.2: ghosts
southwest adventure pt.1
the river
dark salvation
reflections
dreams
the underdark
night odyssey
beginnings