Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Hospital Hannah

The power of community is evident in the Hospital Hannah Thrift Shop, 212 Winchester Street in Winchester.

This newly re-opened resale store offers treasures of all kinds (including masks) for eager Explorers, and benefits the local hospital.

When we arrived, the two shopkeepers (Joy Houston and Betty Reynolds) were having a take-out dinner from the Hospital, which provides a kind of senior meal program, also open to the general public so that the seniors can still get a hot meal and socialize, but still live independently.

H.H. was originally opened 50 years ago to help build the hospital, by a woman ho called herself Hospital Hannah. Her real name was Dorothy Schwemps, but no one really knows how to spell that so they just say Hospital Hannah.

This represents the "Commerce" Rural Element, run by the "People" Rural Element, exemplifying the "Custom" Rural Element of the can-do people of Winchester.

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