On October sixteenth, eighteen fifty-nine, John Brown led an armed group of twenty-one men into Harpers Ferry. He wanted to end slavery in the United States. John Brown was an important person in the history of Harpers Ferry. Weapons for the army were made and stored there. It was also home to the United States Armory and Arsenal, one of only two in the country. He says Harpers Ferry was a noisy, dirty, polluted industrial city in what was then Virginia, the largest slave state in America. He says the town was very different in eighteen fifty-nine. VOA reporter Susan Logue visited Harpers Ferry recently. This year it is celebrating the anniversary of an important historical event. Many people visit Harpers Ferry to see a town that looks the same as it did more than one hundred fifty years ago. The town has shops, restaurants and a National Historical Park. The Appalachian Trail runs through Harpers Ferry. Also, the states of West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland meet in the area. It is in a beautiful area of the Blue Ridge Mountains where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers come together. Harpers Ferry is a small town in West Virginia. But first, a report on a town marking the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of an anti-slavery rebellion.And a question from Russia about Kurt Cobain and the band that he led, Nirvana.A competition to find a spokesmodel for Mother Earth ….
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