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“The thing I’ll miss most from home is my mom’s stuffing, it’s my favorite,” said Clayton Stock-Friends, a young member of the West Virginia National Guard from Harpers Ferry, sporting a red beret and sunglasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The Washington Post reported that Trump’s order would change signage and information at the Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, various Civil War battlefields, and other historic sites.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025
As a solo director, Albert has worked on the hilarious Raid on Harpers Ferry parody "Good Lord Bird," "Alpha" and now, "The Continental: From the World of John Wick."
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2023
Maryland State Police rescued a hiker and his dog on Sunday after learning the two were stuck on a cliff above the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Harpers Ferry is an interesting place for a number of reasons.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
An enslaved Black man frees himself and later fights alongside abolitionist John Brown at Harper’s Ferry in the 2020 historical drama “Emperor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
In this, he echoes the mixed way the world reacted to the historical Douglass after the Harper’s Ferry raid, when it became clear that Douglass had been asked to participate personally and had refused.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2020
The promise he had identified was eventually realised at an armoury at Harper's Ferry in Virginia.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2019
On the night of October 16, 1859, John Brown and 18 black and white comrades slipped across the Potomac River from Maryland and seized the federal weapons factory at Harper’s Ferry.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Somewhere I have read where Nat Turner’s example is said to have inspired John Brown to invade Virginia and attack Harper’s Ferry nearly thirty years later, with thirteen white men and five Negroes.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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