December 15, 2025
Tag: sing sing
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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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February 6, 2024 5 Comments
Devil’s Tower stood all alone in the foothills of Wyoming for millions of years and no one thought they would like to climb it until the 1890s. Guess what? In 1894, a guy named Bill did it on the 4th of July and it became an annual event. Read all about it.