matthew mckeon
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I visited John Brown's house in the beautiful Adirondacks a couple of days ago. There's a very small house, a barn and some monuments.
So how is he remembered? Pretty heroically. He's got a big statue done in the 1930s. He's got a grave site that was established by his widow. It got bigger as other members of his raiding party were reburied on the site. There's a modern, rather noncommittal interpretative panel done by the state of New York(its a NY state park) and a more glowing tribute in granite done in the late 1800s, with his work on the Underground RR, the harper's ferry raid, and the gunfight in Kansas, but with the massacre of five proslavery people omitted.
The guide knew a lot about Brown's very large family and speculated that the murders didnt' sit well with the neighbors, but she was speculating based on the fact that the surviving family members moved to California.
So how is he remembered? Pretty heroically. He's got a big statue done in the 1930s. He's got a grave site that was established by his widow. It got bigger as other members of his raiding party were reburied on the site. There's a modern, rather noncommittal interpretative panel done by the state of New York(its a NY state park) and a more glowing tribute in granite done in the late 1800s, with his work on the Underground RR, the harper's ferry raid, and the gunfight in Kansas, but with the massacre of five proslavery people omitted.
The guide knew a lot about Brown's very large family and speculated that the murders didnt' sit well with the neighbors, but she was speculating based on the fact that the surviving family members moved to California.
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