Folsom

Famous penitentiary city

Folsom names several places in the United States, most notably a city in California known for its state prison.

Folsom Prison Blues is a Johnny Cash song that made the name iconic.

In archaeology, Folsom refers to a prehistoric culture and its distinctive fluted spear points, named for Folsom, New Mexico, where artifacts were first discovered.

song

Johnny Cash

audience · applause · guitar · vocals · performance · folk · bluegrass · singer-songwriter · stage · record

prison

Johnny Cash

inmates · warden · correctional · facility · gates · walls · yard · parole · maximum security

archaeology

Clovis

First Merovingian ruler

bison · megafauna · Pleistocene · hunters · artifacts · excavation · toolmaking · stratigraphy · carbon-dating · prehistory

California

Gold Rush

Historic prospector migration

Sacramento · railroad · historic district · heritage · landmark · preservation · Victorian · architecture · town · 19th century

lithic

Paleolithic

Earliest archaeological era

Cro-Magnon

Categories
Opposites
incarceration/freedom

Folsomfreedom

Absence of constraint

liberty · free world · open road · home · release

FAMOUS PRISONS (peer contrast)

FolsomSan Quentin

California state correctional facility

Alcatraz · Sing Sing · Rikers Island

archaeological/historical period

FolsomClovis

First Merovingian ruler

modern era

Phrases
Familiarity
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Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG