THE PROPHET, JOHN BROWN
In 1859 John Brown attempted to incite a slave revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The events of those days became a prelude to the Civil War.
November 3, 2020
R A Card grew up in Massachusetts and went to the University of Massachusetts and Harvard. He has wandered the country, hitchhiking, riding buses, hopping freight trains, and riding his bicycle from Massachusetts to Alaska. He has lived in Key West, Brooklyn, Pratt, Kansas, and Kona, Hawaii, and by the time he was twenty-four had visited all fifty states. His literary work has appeared in Alaska Magazine, The New England Journal of Public Policy, Omphalos Quarterly and numerous other publications. He is the author of several works of fiction and poetry, including Life of a Dead White Man and 52 Poems, Seven Sonnets.
In 1859 John Brown attempted to incite a slave revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The events of those days became a prelude to the Civil War.
How did we become this anyway?
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Charles Manson and his followers settled in at the Spahn Ranch, in Los Angeles County, in the summer of 1968. After the nights of August 9 and 10, 1969, when followers killed seven people in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, group members drifted away from the ranch.
“Very Fine People on Both Sides”
