Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Nellie Bly
While watching "Jeopardy" during a tea break from work, I discovered Nellie Bly. Not her person, mind you, just a clue about her. Some quick googling yielded this website detailing her escapades. In order to get the right kind of story, she acted and dressed like a lunatic and managed to get taken to the Blackwell's Island Asylum. She remained there for ten days, passing for an insane person, and then wrote an expose on the maltreatment of inmates for her newspaper. That's some moxie!::::
