My Name is. . .Melvin

MY home town in Nebraska has a place on the northeast side which local people refer to as "out on the Hill." It is the state hospital. As boys, we considered it great sport to ride out there on our bicycles, often hooting derisive comments while racing past shuffling groups of patients, who stared at us oddly or grinned in what we thought was the weird manner of "crazy people." We no doubt felt we were taking great risks in daring to venture upon the premises at all.