Antioch: an Education in the Real World

By CARY NELSON

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,...