John Brown's Body

We visited Harpers Ferry National Historical Park at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. As my dad's history students all know (of course they'll remember this over the summer), the militant abolitionist John Brown tried to capture a federal arsenal and start a slave insurrection here in 1859. It didn't work out so well for JB and his friends because he was captured and later hanged for treason. I'm standing in front of the building where he and his followers were holed up.