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		<title>History, Art and Dialogue about Life in a Girls&#8217; Prison, June 8th &amp; 9th in Hudson, NY</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hudson NY]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please join the Prison Public Memory Project and Historic Hudson for &#8220;IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK&#8230;&#8221; an exploration of life inside the New York State Training School for Girls (1904-1975) in Hudson, NY, part of Path Through History weekend, June 8th and 9th. Main events will include an art installation inside several rooms at the Dr. Oliver Bronson House, a National Historic Landmark, which, beginning in the 1920&#8242;s, served as a superintendent&#8217;s residence, staff social space, and work site for the girls incarcerated at the Training School. The installation draws from a rich variety of historical documents and images from local collections and national sources to provide a fascinating glimpse into the stories of several young women kept at the Hudson Training School, including a young Ella Fitzgerald. Also on the program at regular intervals throughout both days are facilitated discussion circles with Training School &#8216;alumni&#8217; providing opportunities for guests to talk with people who lived and worked at the Training School and their family members providing an inside view of life at this historic institution and an opportunity to reflect on what has and has not changed over time in juvenile justice policy and practice. Hard copies of several annotated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delinquent Girls Need to Farm</title>
		<link>http://prisonpublicmemory.org/blog/2013/03/delinquent-girls-need-to-farm/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=delinquent-girls-need-to-farm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fannie French Morse became Superintendent of the New York State Training School for Girls in 1923 and shortly thereafter she began stirring things up. Morse was an advocate of reform, which in the 1920s meant improving the lives of girls. As she noted a year later, “in the institution every effort should be made to make (the delinquent girl) feel herself a part of her own remaking”. Sometime in 1924 Morse wrote a paper, which later appeared in that year’s annual report, expressing her belief that girls should be able to farm at the school. Training school boys do it, she said. Why not girls? “The incorrigible, the emotional, the neurotic, the girl confused with the very tangle of circumstance – in the stabilizing and restoring influences of the farm life many a one can find balance and relief. To the restless girl, calling for another interest, another experience, another adventure before the last is scarce complete, the numberless and shifting interests and movements of the farm life furnish an almost exhaustless source.” Morse’s four-page case for farming included economic, gendered, nutritional, disciplinary, behavioral, environmental, and recreational reasons. Once girls became farmers, Superintendent Morse even reckoned, they could garner farmer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gloria&#8217;s Memories</title>
		<link>http://prisonpublicmemory.org/blog/2013/01/ppmp-nov-18-2012-event/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ppmp-nov-18-2012-event</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPMP Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gloria Hollenbeck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Belafonte]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Odds Against Tomorrow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unable to attend our Story and Photo Share at the Hudson Area Library on November 18, 2013, yet wanting to share her memories and photographs, Gloria Hollenbeck had an envelope delivered to the Library adressed to the Prison Public Memory Project. Inside we found a 2-page typed letter and a selection of photographs. Gloria worked as a stenographer at the New York State Training School for Girls for two years in the 1950s. Gloria sent a group of photographs taken on October 24, 1958 at Rocky&#8217;s, in Hudson, NY&#8230; I married on November 15, 1958 to the love of my life, Joel G. Hollenbeck and am enclosing photos taken from the bridal shower given to me by my co-workers at the Training School. In her letter, Gloria remembers: I enjoyed my job there, and when Ms. Crosby would ask who would like to take dictation, I would quickly respond&#8230; I worked closely with the records of the girls and remember one case where her father was sexually abusing her, and he told her he would put some type of serum in her arm if she told and she would never speak again. Gloria grew up in Hudson and graduated from Hudson High School in 1954. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suffer Little Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPMP Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marion Palfi (1907 – 1978), an immigrant photographer and member of the New York Photo League, a pivotal organization in photography and U.S. history, took photographs of girls at the Training School in Hudson, NY.  Though she was one of the most under-recognized of the Photo League photographers, Palfi’s images of girls at the New York State Training may be the best -known photographs ever taken at the Hudson prison. Palfi, who called herself a “social research photographer”, was born in Germany and came to America from Amsterdam in 1940 just ahead of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Europe. Soon thereafter she launched a ‘study’ on minority artists and met Langston Hughes who became an ardent supporter of her work until his death in 1967.  In 1946, Palfi received a Rosenwald Fellowship, the second ever granted by the foundation for photography and the only one ever given for photography on race relations.  The grant made possible a nation-wide study of children and youth that resulted in an exhibition, “Children in America” and a book, Suffer Little Children, published in 1952. The exhibition opened in January of 1949 at the New York Public Library and subsequently traveled for three years throughout the United States. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No place to go but up…</title>
		<link>http://prisonpublicmemory.org/blog/2012/11/no-place-to-go-but-up/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=no-place-to-go-but-up</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPMP Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Tunney was Superintendent of the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY from 1964 to 1972.  He was 90 years old at the time oral historian Suzanne Snider interviewed him for the Prison Public Memory Project on September 3rd, 2011. Tunney came to New York from Wisconsin where he worked with Girls Training Schools. He considered himself an innovator. To prepare himself for the work awaiting him in New York, he spent a couple months in Mississippi doing voter registration and trying to learn about black culture. His background included air sea rescue work in the Navy and he had a Masters Degree in psychology. He also taught Tai Chi. He was a Buddhist and peace activist and he often joined other anti-war activists in their regular protests against the war in Vietnam on Saturdays in Hudson. In this short interview clip, Tunney, living now in Saratoga Springs, NY, talks about how he came to New York, and about his first innovations and his first mistakes at the Girls Training School in Hudson.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo &amp; story share in Hudson, NY on November 18th</title>
		<link>http://prisonpublicmemory.org/blog/2012/10/photo-story-share/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=photo-story-share</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPMP Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are happy to announce our first grant from the New York Council for the Humanities to support the implementation of public engagement programming in Hudson, NY. The first event will be a community photo and story share, co-presented with the Hudson Area Library, and WGXC community radio. &#8220;If These Photos Could Talk&#8221; Sharing memories about the prison in Hudson, NY WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE FAMILY PHOTOS AND STORIES ABOUT THE PRISON IN HUDSON? Help preserve and tell the history of the prison in Hudson, formerly the New York Training School for Girls and House of Refuge for Women. Community volunteers will copy your photographs and audio record stories about your photos on-site all day.  Bring them to the Hudson Area Library on November 18! PHOTO &#38; STORY SHARING DATE Sunday, November 18, 2012 TIME 11am &#8211; 5pm LOCATION The Hudson Area Library, 400 State Street, Hudson, NY 12534 PHONE 518-828-1792 &#160; PROGRAM [free and open to the public] 1:30 &#8211; Presentation by public historian Kathleen Hulser about the training school movement in America, and the Training School for Girls in Hudson. 2:45 &#8211; Conversation with Hudson resident Sue Tenerowizc who will share her grandmother’s photo album about working at the Girl’s Training School in the early 1900’s. A written overview and annotated bibliography about the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Name the Warden</title>
		<link>http://prisonpublicmemory.org/blog/2012/10/name-the-warden/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=name-the-warden</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPMP Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Do You Know?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Abe Novick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hudson Correctional Facility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Abraham &#8220;Abe&#8221; Novick, Superintendent of the NYS Training School For Girls, 1953 to 1963 Named as a Social Work Pioneer http://www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/default.asp by the National Association of Social Workers &#160; Here is an almost-completed list of the superintendents (or wardens) of the prison in Hudson, NY from 1876 to 1990. The list goes back to the time when this prison was the House of Refuge for Women, and then the New York State Training School for Girls, and forward to its current status as a state prison for men called Hudson Correctional Facility. Can you help us fill in some of the missing names and dates? Or if we have made mistakes on the list, correct us! Please send your information through the comment section below this post. Also, if you have photos or stories relating to these people when they served as a superintendent or warden of the Hudson prison, please let us know! Note that we are not at this time inviting stories or photos about the more current prison superintendents. Don’t forget that the Prison Public Memory Project is offering a prize to the person who has offered the most help in 2013 through this Do You Know? section of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Release</title>
		<link>http://prisonpublicmemory.org/blog/2012/09/press-release/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=press-release</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPMP Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alison Cornyn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: For Immediate Release :: NEW PROJECT LAUNCHES VIRTUAL CENTER FOR PRISON MEMORIES AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, SHOWCASES WORK IN HUDSON, NY Hudson, NY –The Prison Public Memory Project, focused on making prison history relevant as a guide to the future, today launched a website and blog (www.prisonpublicmemory.org) featuring its work in Hudson, a small town that is home to an historic prison and the site of the Project’s pilot effort. Hudson Correctional Facility, a medium-secure state prison for men that opened in 1976, was originally built in the 1800’s as the House of Refuge for Women, the first reformatory for women in New York (1887 – 1904), and then transformed into The New York State Training School for Girls (1904-1975) where famed jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and other girls found to be delinquent by the courts were sent to be reformed. Since 2011, Prison Public Memory Project founders and a growing team of contributors based in the Hudson Valley and around the state have been interviewing Hudson area residents including prison ‘alumni’; conducting research in local and state archives and libraries; and developing educational, interpretive and cultural activities to be offered in Hudson and on the website later this year and next year. Visitors to the website can view current photos of former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York State Training School for Girls, 1904 – 1975</title>
		<link>http://prisonpublicmemory.org/blog/2011/07/york-state-training-school-girls/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=york-state-training-school-girls</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PPMP Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1904, when the New York House of Refuge for Women in Hudson, NY closed, the New York State Training School for Girls took its place to establish a separate place of confinement for “incorrigible” girls between the ages of 12 and 15 who had previously been housed with boys on Randall’s Island in New York City or at the State Industrial School in Rochester. At one point the Hudson Training School held as many as 500 girls but the population declined significantly as it neared closure in 1975. During its 70-year existence the Training School was a site for new ideas in social work, psychological assessment, and sociological research. In the late 1930’s and 1940s, psychologists J. L. Moreno and Helen Jennings established a new school of psychological inquiry (sociometry) at Hudson. In the late 1950s, the sociologist Rose Giallambardo conducted a groundbreaking 10-month field study of social organization among girls and staff members at the school. The Training School also came under close scrutiny for penal practices, including solitary confinement, judged to be harsh by standards of the day. In the mid-1930’s, a 16-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, whose famous career as a jazz singer began while she was on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bearing Witness</title>
		<link>http://prisonpublicmemory.org/blog/2012/08/bearing-witness/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bearing-witness</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last July, a box of documents from the New York State Training School for Girls—intake forms, letters, photographs, and other administrative paperwork from the 1920s––was discovered by Lisa Durfee at a Hudson garage sale, on Clinton Street. The papers were stashed in an unmarked gray cardboard box, the size of a hatbox, with no lid or further clues as to how the papers arrived at this sale, so obviously private, partial, and conspicuously removed from the larger paper trail generated by the Training School over its 71 years of operation. Most of the girls detailed in the papers surely have died (Their birth years range from 1907 to 1908), but there’s no indication in these records what course they took between the time of their residence at the Training School and the end of their lives. The paperwork does offer, in fragment form, a portrait of the student body, expressed through medical and social histories of the intake forms and various girls’ letters home. &#160; From the records, one can detect an institutional obsession with the girls’ physicality, despite the fact that the pseudosciences such as physiognomy and phrenology were arguably passé by the 1920s. Still, intake forms include accounting such as “EARS: [...]]]></description>
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