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title = "Oh, Little Town of Harpers Ferry, How Still We See Thee Lie"
author = ["George M Jones"]
publishDate = 2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00
lastmod = 2023-12-06T05:46:06-05:00
tags = ["life", "100DaysToOffload"]
categories = ["blog"]
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Harpers Ferry: a quaint little town, vegan restaurants, a national
park, Appalachian Trail headquarters, great place to hop a train to DC
or Pittsburgh, a Kansas album cover or a great place to start a civil
war? It’s all in how you look at it, who’s looking, and when.

This is a picture I took on a hike above the town on Loudoun Heights
Saturday and the painting of John Brown in the John Brown museum.

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Saturday I went hiking above Harpers Ferry, WV. Today it’s just a sleepy
little town with a [good little vegan
restaurant](https://kelleyfarmkitchen.com/), headquarters of the [Appalachian
Trail Conservancy](https://appalachiantrail.org/explore/communities/harpers-ferry-bolivar/) and a lot of national park buildings (most of the old
downtown). But back in the day (1859), it housed the federal armory, gun
factory and John Brown thought it would be a great place start a slave
rebellion. He was wrong. But he lit the fuse of the Civil War that ended
slavery. His short lived rebellion was put down by federal troops lead
by … Robert E. Lee, later commander of the Confederate army and JEB Stewart,
a confederate general. And you may even recognize a Kansas (70s band) album
cover in the painting of Brown-as-Moses with a bible in one hand and a
gun in the other.

Turns out there is no museum in Harper Ferry dedicated to the man who
enforced the status quo. I guess we know who was “on the wrong side of
history.

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