What are some of the specific daily activities you expect to find evidence for?

David Bush: We are always interested in the choices that the prisoners dealt with from day to day. For instance, in order to survive, they needed to maintain contact with their family. They did this through writing letters, and often in their letters they would note that when they would come home, they would bring them a present from Johnson's Island. These presents probably consisted of the trinkets, rings, necklaces, and other things that they were making from hard rubber, shell, and various metals. We find evidence of these activities daily in our investigations. Today, for instance, we discovered several pieces of shell that had evidently been used in their craft activity, as well as a piece of hard rubber from a chart rule. And of great interest was part of a small hammer that they had broken and lost. We have not found many of these in our investigations.