December 15, 2025
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Inside Sing Sing Prison and The Mutual Welfare League
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Forty miles north of New York City, “up the Hudson River,” Sing Sing Prison got a new warden in 1915. Thomas Mott Osborne ushered in a wave of penal reform. Out went the lockstep, in came (limited) prisoner self-governance. T. Fred Robbins, a nearby photographer and constable, was allowed to document many of the changes…
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July 20, 2022 4 Comments
Where and when is a Beethoven concerto or a Brahms symphony best heard? The answer is outdoors at night with the stars and moon shining bright. When music and moonlight are stirred together a magic elixir makes the heart’s strings sing. Apollo, Give us more!