June 29, 2007
Antioch: an Education in the Real World
About a hundred prisoners filed in, hobbled with leg irons and bound together by a long chain. The four of us onstage began to perform a series of familiar folk songs. "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" was among them. My main job at first was to hide my complete lack of musical skill, for I was there for another reason. It was the winter of 1964, and I was an Antioch freshman on duty at one of the college's more infamous co-op jobs, being a "normal control" at the National Institutes of Health,
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