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  1. Today is the 166th anniversary of the beginning of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry.

    Read Thoreau’s “A Plea for Captain John Brown”:

    gutenberg.org/ebooks/2567

    #JohnBrown #HarpersFerry #history

  2. October 16, 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a group of 21 other men, five black and sixteen white, in a raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. They had hoped to set off a slave revolt — throughout the south — with the weapons they had planned to seize.

    Virtually all his compatriots were killed or captured by General Robert E. Lee’s troops; Brown was wounded and arrested, and hanged for treason within two months.

    Former enslaved and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass said of Brown that he was a white man "in sympathy a black man, as deeply interested in our cause as though his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery."

    #JohnBrown #HarpersFerry

  3. West Virginia’s Wildly Underrated Town Boasts A National Historical Park, Shops, And Local Dining

    Harpers Ferry has long been known as one of the most important towns in American history, a West Virginia gem replete with ample historical si…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #americanhistory #HarpersFerry #RonaldReaganWashingtonNationalAirport #WestVirginia
    diningandcooking.com/2318488/w

  4. Redefining the history of #Slavery in #America, the #DJT admin has put its anti-#DEI thumb on the scales.

    Under new #ExecutiveOrder edict to reshape the #Smithsonian #Museum and the #NationalParks, curators of historic sites are ordered to rewrite history of #CivilWar, delete references to #HarrietTubman. Teaching visitors to historic sites about #UndergroundRailroad has been legislatively mandated since 1998, but recent #Drumpf era ommissions have been removing references to that, as well as #JohnBrown from #HarpersFerry and deleting mentions of #AfricanAmericans, the practice of slavery and any "divisive narratives" ...

    wapo.st/4jdXL8m #GiftLink #SharedLink
    #History

  5. "Paddy's Irish Pub" ... my digitally hand painted (from my own photography) vision of a great local #pub in #CharlesTown, #WestVirginia ... just past #HarpersFerry in the #ShenandoahValley.

    The artwork is available as wall art, puzzles, coffee mugs and more at my website: lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured

    Visit Paddy's Irish Pub, here paddys-wv.com/

    #NotAi #art #giftideas #buyintoart #ayearforart #pubs #PaddysIrishPub #digitallyhandpainted #digitalart #LoisBryan #CorelPainter #autumn #fall

  6. We did a little wandering around Harper's Ferry today after a drink and some lunch at Harper's Ferry Brewing company.

    #HarpersFerry #WestVirginia #DMVBeers

  7. "Moonrise Over The Gap"

    An #autumn #moon rises over a #harvested #field in the #panhandle of #wv The gap referred to is the area between our section of the ancient #BlueRidge #mountains where sits beautiful #HarpersFerry. These fields will soon be populated with thousands of solar panels. My heart breaks. Hand-painted, digitally, in #CorelPainter, from my own photo.

    lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured

    #art #giftideas #farming #fields #harvests #country #rural #autumn #fall #NotAi #LoisBryan

  8. archive.org/details/black-voic

    Black Voices from Harper's Ferry: Osborne Anderson and the John Brown Raid by Jean Libby; Osborne Perry Anderson

    Topics
    #OsbornePerryAnderson, #harpersferry, #harpersferryraid, #johnbrown, #slaveinsurrection, #slaveuprising, #unitedstatesofamerika, #historyofvirginia, #historyofwestvirginia, #historyofslavery, #socialhistory

    "Shown together from their far-flung points of origination, the role of the black community around Harpers Ferry is obvious in far greater significance than has been previously credited." - introduction

  9. @bmohr this is my Dad’s #favorite place. I recently went and #visited in #october2022 and easily saw why 🙌🏼🙌🏼
    There’s also a great #hostel ten-minutes outside of #harpersferry #cross trails hostel that runs right up along the #appalachiantrail #AT and #c&ocanal

  10. @bmohr this is my Dad’s #favorite place. I recently went and #visited in #october2022 and easily saw why 🙌🏼🙌🏼
    There’s also a great #hostel ten-minutes outside of #harpersferry #cross trails hostel that runs right up along the #appalachiantrail #AT and #c&ocanal