The Magazine of the Mountains since 1969
For twenty-one days and nights six men would take shifts standing watch and making careful notes. They planned to scrutinize every detail of the experiment two at a time to keep each man honest about its results. They were members of a vigilance committee, organized in March 1859 “for the purpose of ascertaining whether Mrs. Hays eats.”
When people ask what it was like to serve time in prison, I tell them in a word—lonely. Prison is the loneliest place in the world. You are constantly surrounded by other people, never alone, yet always lonely. Think what it might be like to take up residence in the...
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