Please excuse me for hijacking your thread. Got me started with the picture of the Schooner and leaf...
I love cars for what I can do with them...love touring and competing too.
Loved motorcycles--but that's another story!
DaveL
First jail I ever worked in (engineering audit after a riot, but the jail was still occupied by "trusted lifers") was Kingston Pen.
There was a riot in '71 (my graduating year.)
It was a couple of years later.
Being shown inthrough the door is quite an experience. Big. Huge. Wood. Door. Closes behind you and you know there's no way out. When you're cleared, they open the door in front of you...
Walked the whole jail.
The slate steps going up to the cell ranges were worn half way through. How many condemned feet does it take to do that, and how many years?
Found bird skeletons that no one had bothered to pick up. Just lying there.
Walk into a cell and turn around (so narrow!) Look out and you can see the sky. Built that way for pennance.
Later, read Roger Carron's book, "Go Boy" He described what went on during the riot; including killings and such.
Got out of there. Carron was a bank robber; a lifer.
It really bothered me. Really.
Being in your jail would really spook me. But I'm glad I looked.
DaveL