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Historian Connor Williams opens John Brown Lives! (JBL!) midsummer season at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site with a talk on our nation’s history as a slave society into which abolitionist John Brown was born, matured and martyred.
On Sunday, July 30 Williams, Lead Historian (ret.) on The Naming Commission, will focus on events on the 1850s and the laws that ruled the land, the passions that stirred its people, and the politics that charted the nation’s course as a slave society. His talk will take place at 2pm in the lower barn at the John Brown Farm and open into a Q&A discussion and reception with light refreshments.
On Tuesday, August 1 JBL!, Adirondack Trail Improvement Society (ATIS), and Craigardan will present an afternoon program with JBL! Fellows Gloria Browne-Marshall and Lewis Sheridan Hughes. Playwright, civil rights attorney, and constitutional law scholar,
Browne-Marshall will give a talk titled, “John Brown Must Live.” Hughes, descendant and namesake of Harper’s Ferry Raider Lewis Sheridan Leary, will share his personal story of discovering that his ancestor’s remains are buried at the John Brown Farm. Their talks begin at 3pm and will follow a special tour of exhibits, picnic, and trail walk starting at 12pm. Participants should bring a lunch and water.
On Saturday, August 5 The Long Table Dinner will feature an open-ended conversation with New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, artist and historian Nell Painter, and historian and Frederick Douglass biographer David Blight and a farm-to-table dinner prepared by Chef Lewis Hughes. Click Here for event information and tickets.
On Sunday, August 13 Louis Bickford will draw from more than twenty years working in the field of international human rights on a talk titled “Addressing Past Atrocity through Public Memory Initiatives.” Founder and CEO of Memria, Bickford will discuss partnering with
organizations to collect, analyze, and circulate narrative accounts of past violence with the aim of strengthening human rights. His talk will begin at 4pm. Light refreshments will be served.
On Saturday, August 19 JBL!’s second-annual Adirondack Family Book Festival will take place from 9:30-4pm, and feature 15 beloved, award-winning children’s and YA authors. Readers of all ages are welcome to mix and mingle with their favorite authors whose books will be on sale throughout the day.
Ren Davidson Seward’s Nine Conversations about Equity and Justice will continue every Thursday in August from 3-4:30pm in A Memorial Field.
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
For more information, contact John Brown Lives! at 518-744-7112 or info@johnbrownlives.org.
This year we are celebrating New York State’s acquisition of John Brown Farm 125 years ago. And it is good that we are.
The Adirondack Center for Writing and Federal Correctional Institute Ray Brook are proud to present an exhibit of pieces created by incarcerated artists. This 25-piece exhibit features paintings and some pottery, all inspired by classic Adirondack landscapes and figures.
On Friday, June 18, 2021, John Brown Lives! (JBL!) and NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYSORHP) will unveil a banner heralding the 125
Dr. Nina Schoch, Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation and conservation biologist, zoologist and photographer Larry Master will be banding saw-whet owls at the John Brown Farm during October.
Adirondack Life contributor and independent scholar 
John Brown Farm has announced a number of nature programs set to run in June.
Memorial Day weekend is approaching, and along with the “unofficial start of summer,” the Adirondacks will experience its annual influx of vacationers. But in years past, visitors arrived in May for another purpose: a pilgrimage to the John Brown farm in North Elba, New York. At the farm, a wreath would be laid upon the abolitionist’s grave, and the song “John Brown’s Body” was sung. 
The second Blues at Timbuctoo festival will bring four acts to historic John Brown Farm on Saturday, September 16, from 11 am to 5 pm. The event, which is presented by John Brown Lives! and Delta Blue, is free and open to the public.
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