The Rose Man of Sing-Sing

Just finished my book by the warden of Sing-Sing prison, ‘Thirty thousand years in Sing-Sing’. He started it out with, “I’ve put to death 150 men and one woman. None were a deterrent to crime in my opinion!”..Anyhow, there’s one chapter called, ‘The Rose Man of Sing-Sing’. He was over sixty when he went in for life for killing his wife. A former big shot on a New York paper, he killed his wife for cheating. Turns out, she wasn’t, but, since she was still dead, off to prison he went. He ends up getting a shot a planting this fantastic garden inside the prisons two acres. People from all over the country sent him cuttings and books for his growing library on gardening. Fountains, trees, the works. Just as he finishes it, the prison has to be re-plumbed. Over a hundred years old. His garden is destroyed. Wiped out by the construction crew. I can honestly say I know how he felt…

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