NC Live: John Brown and Richard Henry Dana

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23 Santanoni Ave.
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
United States

NC Live: John Brown and Richard Henry Dana

The Farmer and the Sailor: The Real Story of John Brown, Richard Henry Dana and an Adirondack Meeting

Thursday, Sept. 12, 7 pm

Presenter: Pete Nelson, NCCC faculty

Location: S-19, Mulholland Hall, NCCC-Saranac Lake

Free and open to the public.

One of the most famous Adirondack tales is adventurer Richard Henry Dana’s story of his 1849 encounter with frontier farmer John Brown, who Dana only realized years later to be the famous martyr of Harper’s Ferry. Dana’s account, published more than twenty years after the meeting, is filled with drama and surprise, but at the cost of accuracy �" the actual events have significant differences. Dana and Brown were both abolitionists, with their most important contributions to justice and civil rights ahead of them. Come learn the real story of their encounter and the larger Adirondack context in which these two remarkable men crossed paths.