Episode 106: The Collection (ad-free)
Added 2019-01-21 10:30:01 +0000 UTCHumans have a tendency to collect things. From baseball cards to Twitter followers, we enjoy bringing everything into one place. But when that collection represents the very worst of humanity—both in how it’s managed and where it comes from—the act of collecting comes with dire consequences.
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Further Reading
- “The Devil and the Art Dealer,” Vanity Fair, March 2014, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/degenerate-art-cornelius-gurlitt-munich-apartment.
- .“A Hell Upon Earth,” Said to be a Mild Description of the West Virginia Pen,” Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 5/31/1894, http://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/print_page/3901.
- “Adkins Falls Twice Through Gallows; Faulty Trap, Laughs Mark Hangings,” Charleston Daily Mail, 3/22/1938, https://newspaperarchive.com/charleston-daily-mail-mar-22-1938-p-1.
- Charles H. Ambler and Festus P. Summers, West Virginia: The Mountain State, 2nd Edition (Engelwood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1958).
- Sherri Brake, The Haunted History of the West Virginia Penitentiary: Afterlife with No Parole (Raven Rock Publishers, 2011).
- “Letter from the West Virginia Penitentiary Warden,” 1/23/1905, wvpentours.com/about/history/articles/letter-west-virginia-penitentiary-warden.
- West Virginia Penitentiary,” Ohio County Public Library, www.ohiocountylibrary.org/print_page/3896 and www.ohiocountylibrary.org/print_page/3897.
- “Charles Manson Requested Transfer to Moundsville Prison in 1983, Wheeling Intelligencer, 11/21/2017, www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2017/11/charles-manson-requested-transfer-to-moundsville-prison-in-1983.
- C.J. Plogger and Jordan Gray, Life at the West Virginia Penitentiary: The Story of Maggie Gray (2017).
- “Under the Lash,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, 11/30/1886, https://www.newspapers.com/image/34581676/?terms=kicking%2Bjenny.
- Bert Useem and Peter Kimball, States of Siege: U.S. Prison Riots, 1971-1986 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
