We went back to Harpers Ferry on Saturday because I felt we just hadn’t seen enough of this historic town the first time around. I had seen these two people in period dress hurrying down the street, and Tim managed to catch them.

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Due to its strategic location at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, hosted the first ferry and then the first railroad bridge across the Potomac and served as the only rail link between the Northern and Southern states during the Civil War. It was also the site of the famous raid by abolitionist John Brown on the town’s arsenal in 1859 in the hope of starting a slave revolt across the South, which was put down by then-Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee. Brown was subsequently tried and hanged for treason.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

The beggar, posted earlier: