1. And once, while following a trail through woodland, the botanist found himself in the midst of an isolated leper colony. 2. Apparently baseball and civic leadership has confused the building with a leper colony. 3. At a leper colony, Hasselbeck found himself singing songs next to an elderly blind man named George McVee, who had no nose, ears or fingers. 4. Except for an Hawaiian island settled as a leper colony, no other place in America has such a concentration of solitary souls. 5. Far below is the former leper colony on Kalaupapa peninsula, reached by foot or mule-back, boat or small plane. 6. For a few centuries, leper colonies could be found throughout Europe, but the Black Death eventually killed most lepers and thus broke the chain of transmission. 7. It was, at various times, home to a leper colony, a mental hospital and an army base. 8. Pressure for authorities to act mounted as makeshift leper colonies and rumors of epidemics surrounded the village. 9. Penikese, a former leper colony and now state-owned bird sanctuary, was the perfect site. 10. Sort of like complaining about a bad case of jock itch while visiting a leper colony. |