Retracing John Brown’s incendiary footsteps

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Just as cold, damp weather couldn't quench John Brown's incendiary fervor, it didn't discourage those determined to follow the radical abolitionist's footsteps Friday, 150 years after he launched the raid that kindled the Civil War.
As many as 300 people, some in period attire, planned to march nearly five miles from a well-preserved log farmhouse along dark rural roads and across the Potomac River to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia. Continued

Photo: Steven Montana (after John Steuart Curry's "Tragic Prelude")