Leopar Colony. It wasnt until we moved back to southern California that I realized nobodys life was like that. Once upon a time there was a leper colony.
The colony has now been turned into a National Historical Park. Father Damien eventually contracted and died from the disease. Even more important to his success Olmstead devised a scheme to avoid paying Canadian export taxes thereby allowing him to sell liquor at lower prices than his competitors.
For more than 150 years the island of Molokai in Hawaii was home to thousands of leprosy.
It occupies a small 3 mile by 3 mile peninsula on the north shore of Molokai. Maybe being in Africa gave me the feeling that I didnt belong. We lived in a leper colony while my dad built a hospital for the village. Kalaupapa was one of a small handful of leper colonies in the United States.