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Blue Silk Sutures
2003-Present
The Blue Silk Sutures were formed somehow, perhaps inexplicably,
in 1963--a year neither of us can remember-when ‘the bell
jar’ was first published in London and Little Peggy March
topped the American pop charts with the hit ‘I Will Follow
Him’. American psychiatrists were still using the Freud-inspired
first edition of the DSM, with its 60 defined mental disorders (paltry
compared to todays fourth edition and its 300+ disorders) and Jackie
O. wore pink. It was 28 years after the suicide of Charlotte
Perkins Gilman and 2 years before the supreme court overturned the
comstock laws that banned contraception.
Maybe it could have happened
any time, but that was when circumstances brought us together. Were
we nurses or patients? I wish I could remember but it doesn’t
matter now. We left that hospital and started playing music a year
later. 1964: Joanne Greenberg’s mental institution classic,
'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden', hit the bookstands and the
Dixie Cups “Chapel of Love” stormed the charts, underlining
every American girl's romantic dream of true commitment, whatever
the circumstances...
>> Blue Silk
Sutures website
See Also
Gowns, Silver Daggers
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