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Week of September 9, 2019

Locale: Battle Creek, Mi


         This week finds me in Battle Creek Michigan to deliver a class to the Federal Protective Services.  It's the same class as last week in Suitland Md, with the same issues concerning equipment on hand.  Once again, the students have been great at understanding the limitations we face, but we've done a decent job in discussing key things with their equipment.  I would love to tell you more about the classes, but frankly, I think you'd get glassy eyed from boredom quickly.


         Other than the class, I have to say that Battle Creek is pretty interesting.  After all, it's known as the cereal capital of the USA, and at one point had over 100 cereal manufacturers here!  That's pretty amazing in and of itself, but where the class is being held is something worthy of a novel.  Not just any novel, but maybe a horror novel, or at least a deep mystery.  Now why would I say that?  Well, it's quite the story.


         The Kellogg brothers (John Harvey Kellogg and W.K. Kellogg) had the Sanitarium built as a Spa of the Day.  Yep, I too thought Sanitarium = Hospital for the Insane, but it's not even close to that.  It was built as a Spa where Harvey promoted a healthy diet (shades of today and how we are looking eat less processed food!), but also some bizarre treatments, even for adults.  Add to this that John Kellogg had some very disturbing ideas about what caused young children (male and female) to start 'experimenting with self pleasure'.  The things he did to both boys and girls would have him in prison quickly in this day.  I want to keep my blog E-rated, so I can't describe what he did here without changing the rating.  But you get the idea.  So here we are, almost revering Kellogs in today's world, yet a lot of what he did would cause us to think of him as a pervert.



Historic/Interesting Places Visited:

         The Battle Creek Sanitorium          http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Battle_Creek_Sanitarium  This is quite an interesting read.  Especially when you look up Harvery Kellogg, and his practices. 

https://pictorial.jezebel.com/john-harvey-kelloggs-legacy-of-cereal-sociopathy-a...

https://factslegend.org/20-interesting-john-harvey-kellogg-facts/

In Closing

         I will spend the next week working from home before traveling to Plattsburgh, NY the following week.  Til next time, be good to yourselves and those you love, and WRITE!



Jim Dorrell