New groups had taken residency: there was the home for retarded men across the way, and the Pinkerton and Colleton homes had been divided into apartments, which seemed to attract Palmetto University students, harried single mothers and older, grim-faced people who had turned a corner in their lives, who cooked on the hotplates in their rooms and attended 12-step programs at night.
NPR: Excerpt: 'The Garden Angel'