What the Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the Museum” Missed
Bounty in delicate artifacts by inmates’ extracurricular activities
A Yuma Prison museum docent wondered why the Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the Museum” production would be interested in featuring a woman prisoner responsible for a single stagecoach robbery. True, housing women prisoners presented challenges, but the powers-that-be adjusted.
What the Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the Museum” missed at the Yuma Prison will surprise you. Share on XPerhaps a more fascinating set of items in the museum, a collection of beautiful lace, piques interest more. During free time, inmates made crafts, such as inlaid wood boxes, horsehair hat bands, carved shell and onyx pieces – even knives, receiving a share of sales upon their release. See a baby dress and piano scarf below.
One of the male inmates, C.E. Hobart, a murderer sentenced to life in prison, repeatedly returned to solitary confinement, quarried rock by day, and knit particularly fine lace collars, baby clothes and piano scarves by night.
Fascinating.
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[…] Museums are full of stories. Delicate lace in Yuma’s prison museum, made in his spare time by a male inmate, sentenced to life for murder, when he wasn’t breaking rocks. See photos here. […]