The Librarian Who Uncovered a National Disgrace
A Cold War-era secret wouldn’t evade Sandra Marlow for long
17 min readMay 8, 2019
A concise yet illuminating history of the Walter E. Fernald State School is at once a sine qua non and an astoundingly difficult and nuanced proposition. Inseparable from the institution’s past is the unquestionable influence of a social movement revelatory of the ugly underbelly of…
