Summer Destination with John Brown Lives!

Date/Time
Date(s) - Jun 14 2024
10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Location
John Brown Farm State Historic Site


2024 Continuing Education Summer Destination

June 14, 2024
10am – 2pm
with John Brown Lives! in Lake Placid, NY

REGISTER TODAY!

  • 10:00am: Meet at Heaven Hill excavation site, 304 Bear Cub Rd., Lake Placid, NY, 12946
  • Afterward we’ll move to John Brown Farm State Historic Site, 115 John Brown Rd, Lake Placid, NY 12946
  • Lunch provided by Northern New York Library Network (we’ll order from Simply Gourmet)

Continuing Education Summer Destination event with John Brown Lives! will focus on a 19th-century “scheme of justice and benevolence” devised to give Black New Yorkers access to land and the vote. The day will feature an archaeological site tour with Dr. Hadley Kruczek-Aaron at Heaven Hill Farm (current site of the Timbuctoo Archaeology Project), followed by a visit to John Brown Farm State Historic Site for a special viewing of the “Dreaming of Timbuctoo” Exhibition, with lunch.

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