Three new presentations -- "The Jews of Sing
Sing," "Rikers Murals Not Missing . . . (Yet?)" and "Rikers Island
had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. . . and still does!" -- have been added to the web
site of the New York Correction History Society and are now accessible from its
home page at: www.correctionhistory.org
-- "The Jews of Sing Sing" is a 14-image
spin-off from a multi-photo postcard announcing an April 25 lecture so
entitled at Temple Emanu-El, Manhattan, by genealogist Ron
Arons.
--- "Rikers Island had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. .
. and still does!" is a 40+ image presentation tracing 300
years of farming on Rikers Island.
-- "Rikers Murals Not Missing . . . (Yet?)" is a
three-part presentation about murals at the island's former
penitentiary:
* a
31-image virtual tour, section detail by section detail, of Anton
Refregier's WPA mural "Home and Family."
* a
33-image virtual art show of inmate murals in the ex-penitentiary's
corridors, and
* a
look at a mural painted in its inmates' mess hall for a well-known
movie. Can you name the film?
The new three-part presentation about
"Murals Not Missing. . . (Yet?)" relates to and links with an earlier
two-part presentation: "Rikers' Missing WPA Murals: Ben Shahn's rejected, Harold
Lehman's removed."