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Subject: Correction History site: Update
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:24:57 EDT

I'm reposting the following with ghe permission of Thomas C. McCarthy,
general secretary/webmaster, New York Correction History Society:

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On Memorial Day 2005 the web site of the New York Correction History Society
web site announced unveiling its latest presentation: Another NYC Isle's
Prisons: Fort Jay, Castle Williams -- six web pages on Governors Island history
including 55 images and a bibliography of 81 on-line resources used.

Among topics explored in words and images (and in some instances, sound) are
the forts, the former School of Practice for Field Musicians, its Drum Major's
Music Book, "Dixie" and the famous 24 notes of "Taps," the various
executions, the chapels, the chaplaincy of Fr. Whelan to Union and Confederate POWs, the
imprisonment of Chiricahua Apaches, early 20th Century prison life, the Nazi
spies' story and the tale of the West Point graduate who studied law while
assigned to Governors Island and who in the late 1930s became NYC Correction
Commissioner and in 1948 became the first Israeli general in modern history.

The direct URL is:
http://www.correctionhistory.org/civilwar/governorsisland/index.html

The presentation also can be accessed from a link line on the home page
immediately below the "Civil War & Correction" icon at
www.correctionhistory.org
or
from the site's "Civil War & Correction" menu page at
http://www.correctionhistory.org/civilwar/index.html

By the way, the number of www.correctionhistory.org files (words.images,
sounds) now exceeds 6,000 (taking up 300+ Mbs of server space), making the site
the largest on-line resource devoted to any state or city's history of
correctional services.

Thomas C. McCarthy, general secretary/webmaster,
New York Correction History Society
www.correctionhistory.org

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I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.

Regards,

Walter Greenspan

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