This Victorian era prison chapel placed the congregants/prisoners in seperate booths so they couldn’t see one another. Today they just have worship with the lights out instead. Though I accept that putting a roomfull of malcontents together in a dark room would have made for a very risky environment. These days we could market it …

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There seems something vaguely ancient Egyptian about Henry G. Wooldridge’s 19th century cemetery plot which features “likenesses of those from Wooldridge’s past, including a childhood sweetheart or his great-niece (depending on the lore), all of his sisters, his horse named “Fop,” plus his mother, brothers, as well as other creatures great and small who had …

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