The NPS in Harper’s Ferry holds John Brown up as some great tragic hero ...
IMO, the guy was a total nutcase.
Yep.
The Daughters Of The. Confederacy put a bronze plaque up for Shepherd and the town fought to remove it.
I used to go there often with IR and UV sensitive cameras to take photos of the church ruins up on the hill.
At the bottom of the street where the armory was is a dingy little building that must have been a museum or something at one time and inside, peering through dirty windows, stands a wax figure of a terrifyingly wild-eyed John Brown looming over a cringing fear stricken black man, John’s arm raised in what looks like violence and the black man’s arms raised in what surely seems anticipation of pain.
I looked at that unintentionally ironic tableau for a few minutes and said “seems about right”.
I miss going to that quirky crazy little town.