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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by James N.[/i] [br]Lake Placid is probably best remembered today ( if it is remembered at all ) as a destination in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York for winter sports and onetime host of the Winter Olympics. But I visited there in the fall of 1995 on a vacation combining the scenic, rustic, and "outdoorsy" with the historic. I stayed in a rambling building known as the [i]Stagecoach Inn[/i], built over a period of several years beginning in 1833 when this region was first being settled to any extent. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/20121228135754_Lake Placid 001A.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 87.06 KB[/size=1] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2012122814122_Adirondacks 007A.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 50.55 KB[/size=1] The interior of both the public areas ( above ) and bedrooms ( below ) contain, in addition to the "rustic" architechtural elements, a collection of Adirondack-style furniture that wouldn't be out-of-place in the Blue Mountain museum. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/2012122814553_Lake PlacidA.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 44.46 KB[/size=1] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/201212281496_Lake Placid 002A.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 74.01 KB[/size=1] [i]John Brown's body lies a' moulderin' in the grave; John Brown's Body lies a' moulderin' in the grave; John Brown's body lies a' moulderin' in the grave; But his Soul is marchin' on![/i] What had brought me to Lake Placid in the first place, since it wasn't a necessary part of the rest of my trip, was the final resting place of what may be described as a Nineteenth-century domestic terrorist, responsible for the deaths of innocent people, an attack on U.S. government property, and inciting servile insurrection; all capital offenses. Yet his farmstead and grave are maintained by the State of New York as memorials to this remarkable man, whose arguably justifiable death-by-hanging helped bring on the greatest cataclysm this country has ever faced. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/20121228142549_John Brown FarmA.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 51.57 KB[/size=1] Prior to his notorious political actions, John Brown and his wife and family owned and operated a typical "hardscrabble" farm here at Lake Placid, N.Y., currently maintained as a state park. Following his execution by the State of Virginia at Charles Town ( now W. Va. ) for treason, murder, and inciting slave revolt, his body was returned to his widow, and it is here that it continues to moulder in the grave. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/20121228143618_Lake Placid 004A.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 71.65 KB[/size=1] Brown was buried here beneath this tree along with two of his sons and other followers killed in the abortive raid on Harpers' Ferry, Va., to sieze guns from the U.S. arsenal to be used to arm the slave revolt he hoped would follow. [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/20121228144359_Lake Placid 005A.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 69.49 KB[/size=1] [i]Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! glory! Hallelujah! His soul goes marching on![/i] [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/20121228144716_Lake Placid 006A.JPG[/img][br][size=1] 52.03 KB[/size=1] [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.