Amazon.com description: Product Description: This history of a state-operated institution for the developmentally disabled in New Gloucester, Maine is a story that continues today, because Pineland and its many counterparts still influence care in the state. It presents a clear-eyed view of residents and staff who gave their hearts and souls to the care of others and those who did not, those who were bright and those who were not, those who escaped and those who stayed, those who hated and those who loved, those who lit fires and those who put them out. It was the best of places, it was the worst of places, Dickens might have said, and he would have been right. It all depended on who you were and why you were there and when . . .