August 10, 2012

• Trip of Torture

  If you recall a couple weeks ago I mentioned I would soon write about the road trip I took with my parents. It was abso-freaking-lutely TORTURE! I just needed to get the photographs from my dad's camera so I could do a photoblog for y'all... well, here are the pictures!

   

  Yep, we went to the Kingston Penn Museum which used to be the warden's home. The museum sat on top of a hill and there were steps leading down to the road in front of the currently-in-use penitentiary that sits on the water (you can kind of see a guard in the tower). 

   

  This is outside of the museum, which is really rather pretty. The parentals were taking forever making their way from the car to the door, so I decided to sit on the stone bench. 

   

  I was crazy enough to try to take a photo from the top of the stairs, and got so dizzy I thought I was going to fall! I was playing with one of the old cell locks, which is rather heavy I must say. 

   

     

  The cells used to be so small, all that fit was a single bed and a couple feet of space at the end to stand to leave the cell. There was a remodel which is a bit bigger, 5x7 I think it was said, that has a desk with a bunk over top, a television, etc. 

   

   

  Apparently once prisoner was rather brilliant and create this hidey-hole out of kitchen trays. He had to lose a fair bit of weight to fit in the stack that was later loaded onto a truck. The guy was eventually found, which is probably a good thing since he was in there for murder. 

   

    

  I can't say I really blame the guy for escaping since these two devices were used as punishment! The coffin is "solitary confinement" and you're left in there for hours in the dark without food or water. The one the right has too much water because they pour it over your head! They had to stop using that one because people were drowning. I'm also a little too short to fit my head into the lower barrel *phew*

   

   

  This one photo is looking up the steps at the warden's house, while the other is looking down the steps at the penn. 

   

   

  And this is the car we saw in the mall parking lot that I absolutely adored! 

  SUMR 

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