About Us

WHO WE ARE

Leading up to and through December 4 – 8, a coalition of cultural, educational and historic organizations is presenting a series of activities to commemorate the 150^th anniversary of John Brown’s death and burial at his farm in North Elba, NY, located just outside the Village of Lake Placid.

OUR HOSTS

• The Lake Placid Center for the Arts - film series
• Lake Placid High Peaks Resort - host of the Dec 5th Symposium
• The John Brown Farm State Park – host of lectures and closing ceremonies
• Essex County Historical Society/Adirondack History Center Museum – host of the Westport and Elizabethtown events
• Northwoods Inn – host of presentations and receptions
• Essex County Courthouse – where John Brown’s body lay in state

PARTNERING AGENCIES

Lead

• John Brown Lives!
• New York Archives Partnership Trust
• Lake Placid Essex County Visitors Bureau
• John Brown Farm State Park
• Essex County Historical Society/Adirondack History Center Museum

Supporting

• Adirondack Film Society
• Congress for Racial Equality
• Lake Placid Center for the Arts
• Lake Placid North Elba Historical Society
• Lake Placid Institute for the Arts & Humanities

• North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association
• Sherman Free Library of Port Henry, NY

SPONSORS

New York Council for the Humanities

• The New York Council for the Humanities*
• The Lake Placid Education Foundation
• Lake Placid Visitor’s Bureau
• Joseph Lovece, Jr.

*Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the New York Council for the Humanities.

MEDIA SPONSORS

• North Country Public Radio
• Mountain Lake PBS

"Has John Brown no message-- no legacy, then? He has and it is this great word: the cost of liberty is less than the price of repression... even though that cost is blood."-- W.E.B. Du Bois (1909)

John Brown Coming Home
Naj Wikoff
Lake Placid/Essex County Visitors Bureau
49 Parkside Dr.
Lake Placid, NY 12946
Tel: 518.523.2445 ext. 108
johnbrowncominghome@lakeplacid.com

Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, 1800, in Torrington, CT, and lived in a young nation still emerging from the colonial era. He was barely an adolescent at the time of the War of 1812, and was a relatively young adult when the United States went to war against Mexico. He also came of age during the rising power of the slave states and the consequent evolution of anti-slavery, activism from colonization to religious abolitionism, and finally to political abolitionism prior to the Civil War.