{"id":528,"date":"2009-10-09T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:13:12","slug":"harpers-ferry-sesquicentennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/10\/09\/harpers-ferry-sesquicentennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpers Ferry Sesquicentennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-527\" title=\"brown150\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/10\/brown1501-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"brown150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A number of organizations in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland have organized events for the sesquicentennial anniversary of John Brown\u2019s raid on Harpers Ferry. These include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vahistorical.org\/exhibits\/exhibits_upcoming.htm#jb\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Historical Society\u2019s <\/a>exhibit \u201cThe Portent: John Brown&#8217;s Raid in American Memory,\u201d a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbrownraid.org\/oct.html#kennedy\" target=\"_blank\">reenactment <\/a>of the march from the Kennedy Farm in Maryland to Harpers Ferry, and an academic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpersferryhistory.org\/johnbrown\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">symposium<\/a>. The full list of events schedule for Oct \u2013 Dec 2009 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbrownraid.org\/events.php\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>. (Registration is required for some of the events). In addition, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hafe\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Harpers Ferry National Historic Park <\/a>will commemorate Brown\u2019s raid with a wide range of activities from Oct. 16-18. Check out the full schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hafe\/upload\/MATRIX-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Teachers may want to check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbrownraid.org\/resources.php\" target=\"_blank\">list of resources<\/a>, which include links to lesson plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of organizations in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland have organized events for the sesquicentennial anniversary of John Brown\u2019s raid on Harpers Ferry. These include the Virginia Historical Society\u2019s exhibit \u201cThe Portent: John Brown&#8217;s Raid in American Memory,\u201d a reenactment of the march from the Kennedy Farm in Maryland to Harpers Ferry, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,82,47,81],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-lesson-plans","category-places-to-visit","category-recent-news","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}