The sister who grew roses

Ohio · United States · Hospital

She kept the loveliest rose gardens around the hospital. When she died the whole town sent roses, and her room was full of them.

This hospital at Nelsonville, Ohio was staffed for years by an order of nuns.

One of them was loved by everyone who met her, and she grew roses. The gardens she kept around the hospital were the finest in the district.

When she died, in the fullness of her years, her room was filled with roses sent by a grieving community.

Step into that room, which is now an administrative office, and you know at once.

That is the gentlest entry in this entire collection and it is the only one where the whole account is a smell. Nobody sees her and nobody hears anything. The room simply smells of roses, in a building that has not had a rose garden for a very long time.

Nelsonville is a small town in the Hocking hills coal country.

The building is in other use.

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The sister who grew roses is in Ohio, United States.

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