Eastern State Penitentiary Quotes

Hoelscher and Alderman (2004: 350) argued that elites ‘often make or preserve … landscapes as a way to bolster a particular political order, and as a means to capital accumulation’, and Bruggeman’s (2012) analysis of the processes and circumstances behind the conservation of Eastern State Penitentiary suggests that the action of local elites in this case also (perhaps unwittingly) performed this function. Observing that ‘museums are branded by the moment in which they are born’, and that they ‘carry with them the politics of those who shape their public roles’ (ibid. 174), he noted that the committee of volunteers which formed to preserve the Penitentiary reflected the ‘young, highly educated and predominantly white culture activists’ (ibid. 177) who inhabited the newly gentrified local neighbourhood around the prison, and who had few connections either to prisoners who

In 1924, A Labrador Retriever was sentenced to life without parole at Eastern State Penitentiary for killing the Governor’s cat.

Yeah, but Talbot, your missus -- she checked the name of the paranormal group you said you were leading, and there’s no such group. Certainly not walking through Eastern State Penitentiary , anyway. It’s condemned. No one is allowed in there anymore.”“Wait .… what? So I’m not getting my two hundred and fifty bucks?” I asked him. “I don’t think you get it man, there’s no paranormal group and certainly no tour.”“BT I just spent the last hour or so in that fucking place, I can assure you there was both.”“Talbot, I’ve been trying to find you for 24 hours. Tracy most likely has the National Guard on the way.