John Brown America 250:
Renewing the Revolution

June 12 - 25
Locations: North Elba, NY, Torrington, CT, Harper’s Ferry, WV, and Sharpsburg MD

Led by Dr. Kathy Bullock, Singing Our Journey to Freedom Tour is not just a music tour, it is a moving classroom tracing the unfinished work of emancipation across America. Songs of Slavery and Emancipation are primary-source historical documents in the form of song.

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North Elba, NY June 17

Torrington, CT, June 22

June 29 via Zoom

7:00 - 8:30 PM, Eastern
6:00 - 7:30 PM Central
5:00 - 6:30 PM Mountain
4:00 - 5:30 PM Pacific
12:00 AM (Midnight) in London
10:00 AM in Sydney

Ian Barford is a TONY nominated stage actor and long time ensemble member of Chicago’s acclaimed Steppenwolf Theater. Ian has been deeply engaged in the life of John Brown since 2001, and deeply engaged with Dr. Lou almost that long

Robert L. Tsai, Ph.D., is Professor of Law and Warren Memorial Scholar at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, presidential leadership, and individual rights. Professor Tsai’s latest book is Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All.

July 4-5
Location: John Brown Farm, North Elba, NY

Actor Ian Barford will read John Brown’s Declaration of Liberty and his Provisional Constitution for the Subterranean Pass-way community designed to break the system of slavery through hopelessness and attrition.

July 20, via Zoom

7:00 - 8:30 PM, Eastern
6:00 - 7:30 PM Central
5:00 - 6:30 PM Mountain
4:00 - 5:30 PM Pacific
12:00 AM (Midnight) in London
10:00 AM in Sydney

John Brown and the Transcendentalists
Lou is joined by Nell Painter, Ph.D., and David Reynolds, Ph.D., for a deep look into ‘deeper insights’ on “The Old Man,” How did the Transcendentalists, like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, see John Brown?