John Collier Lady Godiva painting

John Collier Lady Godiva painting
Caravaggio Supper at Emmaus painting
Harvey was placed in what was then called the Glenwood Home for Feeble-Minded Children. In the 1930s, many Americans, unable to take care of their retarded children — in some cases ashamed of them — did much the same thing."Most people back then, if they had a child who was challenged in some way, whether it was mental or physical, people looked down upon them as if they had a bad gene in their family," says Sandy Helm, who works in the home where Harvey Quillin lives today. In 1934, in the middle of the Great Depression, the conditions in many homes for disabled and retarded children were pretty bad. There was no adequate medical care and often they had no heat and little food. Sometimes the children worked in the fields to help the institution get by. Harvey Quillin's childhood was like that.