Raoul Peck honored at John Brown Farm Adirondack Daily Enterprise By Lauren Yates Oct. 26, 2021 Ren Davidson Seward, left, and Raoul Peck talk at the Memorial Field for Black Lives at the John Brown Farm, at an event honoring Raoul Peck’s filmmaking career documenting life in his home country [...]
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 Adirondack Wild to feature Dawson, Hogan at annual meeting by Community News Reports North Creek, NY – Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve convenes its 11th Annual Membership Meeting on Friday, September 24, 2021, at Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek. The meeting begins with Adirondack Wild’s program [...]
August 18, 2021 Seven Days By KEN PICARD COURTESY OF LINDSAY PONTIUS Many elements of history lie hidden amid family heirlooms. Katherine Butler Jones, a Black woman from Massachusetts, was going through some family documents more than two decades ago when she came upon the original marriage certificate of her great-great-grandparents. [...]
Advocates reflect on welcoming strategies at historic site anniversary and Juneteenth celebration June 19, 2021 Adirondack Explorer By Brandon Loomis Nicole Hylton-Patterson, director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative, says John Brown Farm is a place that can help Adirondack visitors feel at home and inspired to champion inclusivity. Photo by [...]
Adirondack Almanack Thursday June 17, 2021 by Community News Reports On Friday, June 18, 2021, John Brown Lives! (JBL!) and NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYSORHP) will unveil a banner heralding the 125th anniversary of NYS’ acquisition of the John Brown Farm in 1896. NYS Parks Commissioner Erik Kulleseid [...]
MAY 7, 2021 Adirondack Daily Press by THE ENTERPRISE STAFF Sierra Club President Aaron Mair kneels at the grave of 19th-century abolitionist John Brown after laying a wreath with his daughter Olivia as part of John Brown Day May 6, 2017, at the John Brown Day State Historic Site in [...]
Thoughts on the Passing of the H.A.L.T. Law in New York By JBL! Board Treasurer, Tom Terrizzi I join in celebrating this significant legislative initiative to limit the devastating effects of long term solitary confinement. While we should celebrate, it’s important to recognize that this is only another step forward [...]
Adirondack Daily Enterprise MAR 29, 2021 NAJ WIKOFF From left, Curt Stager of Paul Smith’s College, historian and author Sandra Weber, Martha Swan, Essex County Historian Aurora McCaffrey, Lavada Nahon, NYS Dept of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation, Martin Tyler, vice president of John Brown Lives!, and David Welch (Brewster [...]
Celebrating 125 Years of State ownership of John Brown Farm Mar 24, 2021 Press Republican ROBIN CAUDELL/P-R FILE PHOTOA view of the abolitionist John Brown’s gravesite at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site on March 7, 2020 in North Elba. NORTH ELBA – On March 27, 1896, New York [...]
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 John Brown’s Farm: 125 Years in Support of Abolitionist History by Vanessa Banti Celebration of John Brown Farm as a NYS Historical Site When you stand at the grave of famed abolitionist John Brown, you stand at the intersection of the timeless forest and the modern society [...]