Summit County Historical Society is hosting a hike and ceremony to commemorate the 225th birthday of abolitionist John Brown ...

John Brown was more than an abolitionist, he was also an egalitarian. A May 9 birthday celebration, hosted by the Torrington Historical Society and the Workman Memorial African Methodist Episcopal ...

John Brown spent his earliest years in northwestern Connecticut. When the boy was 5, his father, scrabbling for a living as a tanner, moved the family to Ohio. During the War of 1812, the elder ...