CRISSY

He built an ingenious miniature carnival operated by pulleys, chains, and levers connected to pedals he would depress with his feet. On Sunday afternoons he entertained visitors to the prison as he sat in the midst of a hodgepodge of airplanes, ferris wheels, ducks, eagles, boxers, animals, and, for good measure, a miniature electric chair with a little man strapped to it. He had a steel frame holding a harmonica around his neck and, as he played the banjo, he used his left foot to bang his crude drum and his right foot to press the pedal that operated the flywheel and made the carnival come to life. Men boxed, acrobats tumbled, animals wiggled and danced while Wynn played mournful tunes.