For this
Thursday matinee show, I’m the grizzled old prospector proclaiming there’s
historical gold to be found in old jailhouse (or prison) ledgers.
I seek to
back up that claim by sharing a few of the many “nuggets” found in three
record books from a jail that opened in 1869 in Essex County among the
Adirondack “hills” bordering Lake Champlain.
