The Nankin Township Historical Society

Detroit Free Press , June 5, 1959 Nothing spices up a summer carnival like a little nude dancing from some southern gals. Or so thought two members of the Wayne County rackets squad (tennis? I guess that I should have read this better since one was a cop and the other a prosecutor) who treated 16 teenage boys to the show at the Harris-Kehrer post of the VFW in Inkster. Which sounds like a grooming ritual of sorts and one father, after hearing of the episode from his son, thought so, too, and c alled the cops. The men, Alfred A. Goldfarb, assistant prosecutor, and Harry Sparks, deputy sheriff, I'm assuming, were sent to DeHoCo (or did they claim that it was a sting?) along with the dancers and others involved in the illegal activity. The arrested dancers and their accomplices are listed as Nellie B. Jones, Gastonia, North Carolina, Dorothy Gentry, Maryville, Tennessee, Lucy Jude, Stirrat, West Virginia and Robert E. Miller, Tampa, Florida were all sent to the Detroit House of Corr...

scroll through the pages with the arrows at the middle edges of the book This is a fairly hardscrabbled collection of confessional verse that touches the heart like a stab wound from a dying cactus. Outside of the fact that these women were criminals there is nothing outstanding about the works. Still, it quenches my ephemeral lust just a little. I did research one case, that of Charlene Westerville, a baby killer, and that can be read on my now defunct Eloise blog . The other prisoner contributors are as follows: PUSH ON PEOPLE by Glenda Faye Buffing THE WAY I FEEL by Harriet Walker THE RUDE AWAKENING by Jannie Thomas THOUGHTS OF YOU by Sanda Watkins WHAT IS IT? by Ann Marie Felton SNOW by Sandra Magnuson WHERE HAVE I BEEN, WHERE AM I GOING? by Yvonne Patrick Kaufman I REMEMBER by Anonymous REFLECTION by Anonymous DEATH OF NOT ENOUGH by Sylvia Peper JAIL by Willie Jones LIFE by Ruth Ann Nichols PETRIFIED by ShaBooDie CLOUDS by Mary Cuevas HERE I SIT by Arcenia Skinner WORDS OF WISDOM ...