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@@ -4147,6 +4147,47 @@ beliefs. I may be tearing down my own beliefs. γνῶθι σεαυτόν!
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# Post 21 of #100DaysToOffload https://100daystooffload.com/
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*** Life :life:
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+**** PUBLISHED Oh, Little Town of Harpers Ferry, How Still We See Thee Lie :100DaysToOffload:
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+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 2022-02-18
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+:EXPORT_HUGO_PUBLISHDATE: 2022-02-18:
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+Harpers Ferry: a quaint little town, vegan restaurants, a national
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+park, Appalachian Trail headquarters, great place to hop a train to DC
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+or Pittsburgh, a Kansas album cover or a great place to start a civil
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+war? It’s all in how you look at it, who’s looking, and when.
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+This is a picture I took on a hike above the town on Loudoun Heights
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+Saturday and the painting of John Brown in the John Brown museum.
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+#+caption: [[http://curious.galthub.com/ox-hugo/hf.png]["Harpers Ferry" by George Jones]] is licenced under [[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/][CC SA 4.0]]
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+file:images/hf.png
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+#+hugo: more
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+Saturday I went hiking above Harpers Ferry, WV. Today it’s just a sleepy
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+little town with a [[https://kelleyfarmkitchen.com/][good little vegan
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+restaurant]], headquarters of the [[https://appalachiantrail.org/explore/communities/harpers-ferry-bolivar/][Appalachian
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+Trail Conservancy]] and a lot of national park buildings (most of the old
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+downtown). But back in the day (1859), it housed the federal armory, gun
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+factory and John Brown thought it would be a great place start a slave
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+rebellion. He was wrong. But he lit the fuse of the Civil War that ended
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+slavery. His short lived rebellion was put down by federal troops lead
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+by … Robert E. Lee, later commander of the Confederate army and JEB Stewart,
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+a confederate general. And you may even recognize a Kansas (70s band) album
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+cover in the painting of Brown-as-Moses with a bible in one hand and a
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+gun in the other.
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+Turns out there is no museum in Harper Ferry dedicated to the man who
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+enforced the status quo. I guess we know who was “on the wrong side of
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+history.
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+#10 of #100DaysToOffload take 2, https://100daystooffload.com/
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**** PUBLISHED Oh, you gotta get a glory in the work you do :100DaysToOffload:poetry:work:
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