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Peter Aaron profiles club owner Phil Ciganer, who opened
the original Towne Crier Cafe in the Dutchess County hamlet of Beekman in 1972. A few moves later, the iconic club is now located in Beacon and still books great acts like those who have performed there over the years, including Randy Newman, Suzanne Vega, Gillian Welch, and David Byrne.
Parchman Prison is in the Mississippi Delta and is notorious for brutal conditions and a very high black population. In 1996, the historian David Oshinsky said, "Throughout the American South, Parchman Farm is synonymous with punishment and brutality. It's the closest thing to slavery that survived the Civil War." Ta-Nehisi Coates quoted Oshinsky's writing in his 2014 Atlantic article, "The Case for Reparations." The prison was founded in 1901, on a former plantation site.