The Little Stone House In Summer ... a new version of an old favorite. Digitally hand painted (Not Ai) in #CorelPainter using my own photo as a starting point, it's one of the properties on the #Beallair estate in the panhandle of West Virginia. Click the link to read a little bit about the history!

At my website: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/the-little-stone-house-in-summer-lois-bryan.html

And at #FineArtAmerica: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-little-stone-house-in-summer-lois-bryan.html

#art #giftideas #civilwar #HarpersFerry #ShenandoahValley #NotAi #LoisBryan

Musical Interlude: I was introduced to this artist today, via an episode of "Mountain Stage," and I loved this tribute to a town I know, and even mentioning a place I've hiked. I need to learn more about him.

"Harpers Ferry Moon," performed live by John R. Miller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjCEORs8RuU

#MusicalInterlude #OldTimeMusic #CountryMusic #JohnRMiller #HarpersFerry #MarylandHeights

Christina Kaspar verbindet in „Harpers Ferry: Lose Me Once“ Spannung, emotionale Konflikte und moralische Grauzonen zu einem atmosphärisch dichten Roman. Katja Plattner lobt auf https://schreiblust-leselust.de besonders die düstere Kleinstadtstimmung und die starke Spannungskurve. Lesenswert für Fans intensiver Spannungsromane.

#ChristinaKaspar #HarpersFerry #LoseMeOnce #Bücher #Rezension #Spannungsliteratur

Today, for Black History Month, we remember Hiram Rhodes Revels who, on this date, February 25, 1870, was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress. He was a Republican from Mississippi. His cousins were killed participating in John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. During the Civil War, he helped recruit and organize two black Union regiments. When he first arrived at the Senate, southern Democrats refused to let him sit, arguing that the Dred Scott decision, in 1857, ruled that he wasn’t a citizen and had no right to serve, despite the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, which gave him birthright citizenship

#workingclass #LaborHistory #congress #slavery #racism #reconstruction #johnbrown #harpersferry #republican #slavery #abolition #CivilWar #HiramRhodesRevels #uprising #revolt #birthrightcitizenship #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastodon