• I recently acquired a couple of glass negatives showing the aftermath of a prison break in December, 1935.
• In researching them, I found that five prisoners tried to escape from Charlestown State Prison (Massachusetts) by hijacking a truck as it was making deliveries and ramming it through the prison gates.
• During the breakout, the inmates attacked a truck driver and an inmate who tried to protect the driver. The truck driver was killed in the incident.
•  All the escaping inmates were eventually captured.
  • Charlestown State Prison, a maximum-security prison that housed notable figures like Malcolm X and Charles Ponzi, operated from 1805 until its closure in 1955. The site is now occupied by Bunker Hill Community College. 

A Flyball governor is a specific type of governor with a feedback system that controls the speed of a steam engine by regulating the flow of steam to maintain a near-constant speed. 

Taken with my 100-year-old Kodak Autographic camera

From a recent visit to the Withlacoohee River, my son is teaching my granddaughter to fish!

From a recent visit to the American Police Hall of Fame Museum, located in Titusville, Florida. The American Police Hall of Fame & Museum, founded in 1960, is the nation’s first national police museum and memorial dedicated to American law enforcement officers who have been killed in the line of duty. The Memorial lists over 9,000 officers who were killed in the line of duty. Their names are permanently etched on the Memorial’s marble walls, which are added to once a year for Police Memorial Day. On Police Memorial Day (May 15th) the Memorial hosts thousands of police officers, family survivors, and dignitaries. The event is a somber reminder that every 57 hours, a police officer is killed in the line of duty somewhere in America.