Eastern State Penitentiary

By Julie Lyn from Washington, DC, USA [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsThe Friday Night Social at BB2016 will be held at Eastern State Penitentiary. Opened in 1829, the Penitentiary was state of the art with running water and central heat and was the most expensive public structure built at the time. It was a model for hundreds of subsequent prisons and set the standard for reforming criminals using solitary confinement.

I’m looking forward to getting the opportunity to see this beautiful building up close with the tour Friday night. We will have the entire building to ourselves, after dark!