NY's first state prison was not Auburn, Sing Sing or Dannemora. but Newgate in Greenwich Village, a late 18th early 19th Century prison now mostly forgotten. At 2:45 pm Thursday Nov. 16 Ph. D student Jonathan Nash unveils to "Researching New York 2006" conference participants at SUNY Albany "Prisoners & Prisoner Experiences in the NYS Prison in NYC, 1797-1810." Clicking any of the four images under the www.correctionhistory.org home page headline "Rediscovering NYS' Mostly Forgotten 1st Penitentiary -- Newgate in NYC" accesses the New York Correction History Society (NYCHS) website's latest addition -- extended excerpts from W. David Lewis' classic "From Newgate to Dannemora." This first installment of excepts consists of 8 web pages spanning the book's first 60 printed pages. The presentation includes more than 40 images. The NYCHS home page box promoting the site's Newgate book excerpts debut and Nash's Newgate paper at the "Researching New York 2006" conference also calls attention to other talk topics among the two dozen panel discussions scheduled Nov. 16-17. These include the NYC Draft Riot during the Civil War, the Colored Orphanage torched by the rioters, the post-riot organizing of NYS' first U.S. Colored Troops regiment (trained on Rikers Island), and Rockefeller Archive Center research on "The Cleverest Woman I Ever Met." The promo box of links to NYCHS website presentations with information relevant to all those above cited topics at the SUNY Albany conference appears near the top of the home page at www.correctionhistory.org The New York Correction History Society home page box also includes links to conference registration and program information -- respectively http://nystatehistory.org/researchny/registration2006.html and http://nystatehistory.org/researchny/program2006.htm I am happy to use this announcement of our site's "From Newgate to Dannemora" excerpts presentation as an occasion also to promote the "Researching NY 2006" conference sponsored by the State University at Albany History Dept., the History Graduate Student Organization and the NYS Archives Partnership Trust. The Nov. 16-17 event is the 8th annual. Congratulations and best wishes. Thomas McCarthy New York Correction History Society general secretary/webmaster www.correctionhistory.org [log in to unmask]