By Kevin Merida
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
SCRANTON, Pa.
Joe Biden was born at Mercy Hospital, went to school at St. Paul’s, played baseball at Maloney Field, scrapped with local toughs, skinned his knees on the dirt roads. When he returns to his old Green Ridge neighborhood, where he spent the first 10 years of his life, he likes to pick up a “regular hoagie,” the one with the special sauce, at Hank’s Hoagies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202774.html
See also:
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/vice-president-biden-due-in-scranton-1.1044813
He was born in Mercy Hospital. His family lived in the city’s Green Ridge section and left for Delaware when he was 10, but he often returned for summer vacations and family visits.
I believe that at the time that Biden was born, the Scranton State Hospital was an “asylum” for mentally ill patients.
http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Scranton_State_Hospital