Operation Tip Toe / Danvers State Hospital

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I suppose I shall start my first blog with a subject near and dear to me



After meeting Anna Schuleit at the Bloom event for Mass Mental Health Center, John Gray and I asked what will become of the flowers after the event and if we could have some to plant at the unmarked graves near Danvers State Hospital. She gave us a truck load of flowers and let me tell you getting them to the meeting spot in one trip was a daunting task. We had stored the flowers at John Archers house and when i went to load my truck I couldn't see out the rear because of all the crates of flowers. I backed right over a huge boulder at the end of his driveway and got stuck for a while, It was quite the ordeal. Then once everyone got there, no one remembered a shovel to plant the flowers. After a quick trip to home depot the rest is history. to this day the bulbs still bloom in the spring









The story made the blog of a noted Urban Explorer Ninjalicious of www.infiltration.org

"Say, Those Tulips Look Familiar
In an inspired collaboration between art and urban exploration that inexplicably
perturbed area preservationists, hundreds of tulips left over from the
Massachusetts Mental Hospital installation made their way quietly to the grounds of
unmarked graves at the Danvers State Hospital on November 21. The New England
Urban Exploration Alliance (NEUEA) received the tulips from artist Anna Schuliet
after her exhibition closed on November 17. The action, dubbed Operation Tip Toe,
was performed by a dozen NEUEA members in the dead of night as an act of
memorial to those who lost their lives, as well as their souls, at Danvers. Should the
bulbs successfully winter over, the tulips (and some daffodils planted by the
preservation committee) should make their appearance on the grounds this coming
spring.

                                                                   --Ninjalicious / Infiltration.org "










The Cast:

Mike Dijital: Planner, Driver, Planter
John Gray: Planner , Media contact
Anna Schuleit : Flowers
Karen " Facinated": Driver
Paula : Driver
John Archer : Warehousing
Agent Nine and Crew : Planters
Ethan : Planter
Mark : Planter
Sher and Tia : Planters
Dave and Rydia : supervision and smokes


The story even made the local paper 



Fin.

still wish i could of got around to this place...

Dude this is awesome. I wish explorers would do more stuff like this. It seems more people are into vandalizing then actually doing something nice for the site. If the patients were still around today I'm sure they would thank you to know someone actually cares.

THis is essentially the stuff deggi members used to get together to do, its sad those days are gone   *blah*

THis is essentially the stuff deggi members used to get together to do, its sad those days are gone   *blah*

Lets bring them back! There's too much damn drama in the UE community, lets put that crap behind us and bring back the good old days

all it takes is a good idea, and a handfull of people willing  to put in some effort and time

Challenge Accepted!

if its something close to me, anna and I are game

So I gotta know...

Do they continue to grow now?

@cor726 im told to this day a few still pop up.

That was a really great deed I enjoyed reading about this! I wish more people put time and effort into some of these cemeteries. The people that lived at these hospitals as patients seen there last days here and the stories were often tragic. The least any of us can do is plant flowers or try to help maintain these said sites!

Ive always felt a connection to that place deeper than urbexing and i don't know why. the idea for this literally came out of nowhere in an instant @AngelOfThyNight

Well its because you have passion for Danvers I have places like that to. Out where I live I cleaned up some indian cemeteries of course the tribe was not happy about it but they refuse to do it. You do what you have to do bro even the little things matter most!