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John Brown Lives

Freedom Story Project Continues to Collect Stories

December 16, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Freedom Story ProjectThanks to a grant from AARP Community Challenge, John Brown Lives! (JBL!) is continuing to collect first person narratives which seek to bridge generational boundaries while collecting freedom and justice narratives, using the OurStoryBridge model, as part of their “Freedom Story Project.” [Read more…] about Freedom Story Project Continues to Collect Stories

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: John Brown Lives

$100K Awarded To Museum Educators

October 31, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Pomeroy FundThe Pomeroy Fund for NYS History has awarded 20 history-related organizations across New York State $5,000 each during its fifth grant round to bring back or hire museum educators. [Read more…] about $100K Awarded To Museum Educators

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Beacon Historical Society, Chapman Museum, Education, Edward Hopper House Museum, Grants, Greater Ridgewood Historical Society, Historic Cherry Hill, John Brown Lives, Lewis County Historical Society, Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor, Mount Gulian Society, Museum Association of New York, North Creek Railway Depot, Putnam History Museum, Saratoga Springs History Museum, Seneca Falls Historical Society, Slate Valley Museum, Staatsburgh State Historic Site, Time and the Valleys Museum, Underground Railroad Education Center, Vander Ende Onderdonk House, Wappingers Historical Society, William Pomeroy Foundation

John Brown Lives! Launches Freedom Story Project

August 24, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

john brown illustrationJohn Brown Lives! (JBL!) launched its “Freedom Story Project” website during the first-ever Adirondack Family Book Festival at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site. [Read more…] about John Brown Lives! Launches Freedom Story Project

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Archives, John Brown Lives, Libraries, Oral History

North Country ‘Colors of Freedom Tour’ to Celebrate Juneteenth

June 14, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

colors-of-freedom-banner-2022Clinton and Essex counties were a center of the roiling abolition controversies before the Civil War, helping many freedom-seekers fleeing enslavement follow the Lake Champlain corridor to Canada in the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s.

A first-ever North Country Juneteenth celebration of the region’s role in the fight against slavery will highlight Underground Railroad work in the area, as well as prominent anti-slavery Quakers and abolitionist John Brown. [Read more…] about North Country ‘Colors of Freedom Tour’ to Celebrate Juneteenth

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: Adirondack HIstory Museum, John Brown Lives, John Brown SHS, Juneteenth

‘Blues at Timbuctoo’ Music Event At John Brown Farm Sunday

September 16, 2021 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

blues at timbuctooJohn Brown Lives! and Grand Adirondack Hotel will present the 7th annual Blues at Timbuctoo featuring Jerry Dugger; Karl Schwarz; Split Rock Ramblers; Soul Sky Duo with Mark Emanatian and Jeremy Walz on Sunday, September 19th, from noon to 5 pm. [Read more…] about ‘Blues at Timbuctoo’ Music Event At John Brown Farm Sunday

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Events, History Tagged With: John Brown Lives

John Brown Lives! Marking 125 Years of John Brown Farm Historic Site

July 15, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

John Brown Lives 125th Anniversary CommemorationJohn Brown Lives! will commemorate the 125th anniversary of the State of New York acquisition of the John Brown Farm State Historic Site, home of abolitionists John and Mary Brown on the condition that it be used “as a public park or reservation forever,” on Saturday, July 17th. [Read more…] about John Brown Lives! Marking 125 Years of John Brown Farm Historic Site

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: John Brown Lives, John Brown SHS

A Prison in the Woods: Environment & Incarceration in the North Country

May 12, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

John Brown Lives! has announced A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in the North Country, a virtual book talk with author Clarence Jefferson Hall, Jr. set for Wednesday, May 19th. [Read more…] about A Prison in the Woods: Environment & Incarceration in the North Country

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, Events, History Tagged With: Books, Crime and Justice, John Brown Lives, prisons

John Brown Farm Celebrates 125 Years of State Ownership

May 4, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

John Brown Farm courtesy John Brown LivesIn 2021, the state of New York will celebrate 125 years of being caretaker to the John Brown Farm in North Elba, just outside of Lake Placid in the Adirondack Park.

Brown came to the area to help recently freed slaves become farmers. At that time in New York State, black men (and only black men) needed to own $250 dollars worth of land to be eligible to vote. Brown immersed himself in this new community of black farmers and participated in a wide variety of organizing. [Read more…] about John Brown Farm Celebrates 125 Years of State Ownership

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Abolition, Black History, Historic Preservation, John Brown, John Brown Lives, John Brown SHS, Lake Placid, North Elba, OPRHP

Blues at Timbuctoo Going Online Saturday

November 12, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

blues at timbuctooJohn Brown Lives! and the Adirondack Film Society have announced Blues At Timbuctoo 2020, virtual concert and panel discussion set for Saturday, November 14th.

Blues at Timbuctoo 2020 is a professionally recorded film of nationally renowned vocalists, instrumentalists, performers, and storytellers. [Read more…] about Blues at Timbuctoo Going Online Saturday

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: Adirondack Film Society, John Brown Lives

John Brown Pilgrimages and the Lake Placid Club

July 19, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Adirondack Life contributor and independent scholar Amy Godine is set to track the history of pilgrimages to abolitionist John Brown’s North Elba grave and home, with an emphasis on the yearly visits of the John Brown Memorial Association from Philadelphia and the exclusionary Lake Placid Club.

From 1922 into the 1970s, black activists gathered at Brown’s shrine to honor his May birthday with speeches, sermons, and song. People in Lake Placid participated too, spurning the segregationist culture of the Jim Crow era. Of special interest to Godine is the complicated relationship of the black city pilgrims with the notoriously exclusionary Lake Placid Club. [Read more…] about John Brown Pilgrimages and the Lake Placid Club

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: Black History, John Brown, John Brown Lives, Lake Placid

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