Around the world, you will see one symbol used to signify medicine, a rod/staff with snake winding around it, otherwise known as The Staff of Asklepios.

Lithography once dominated the printing industry in the United States. The small collection housed at the KLMA gives us insight into the a widely distributed print media that brought art into people’s homes.

Phyllis Stone’s family was the last to live amongst the incarcerated at the Gaol. Her father, Henry William Stone (1888 - 1955) was appointed Governor in 1922 and remained until his passing in 1955. Her essay, My Twenty Years Behind Bars, was written in 1998 and reflects on her formative years living with her family in the Victoria County Gaol. Phyllis commends her parents for completing their duties with great respect and kindness for their prisoners, recalls the extraordinary circumstances of growing up with her three siblings and the life lessons she learned from the men and women who served time under her father.