Gardens Tell the Other Story of Alcatraz

For more than a century, gardens were an important part of everyday life on Alcatraz. Planted by successive waves of island inhabitants, from soldiers and their families to prison inmates, penitentiary staff and their families, this garden legacy indicates a continuous desire by residents to make the forbidding island an inhabitable home.

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