La fontaine's most famous fables

During our recent family weekend trip to Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Placid, New York, we visited John Brown Farm in Lake Placid before heading to Olympic Stadium. I was wholly unfamiliar with John Brown before stumbling upon his farm on the New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation website when I was searching for things to do and see in Lake Placid. I am so glad that I found it because it was a powerful and moving educational experience for all of us.

John Brown was an American abolitionist born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut, the fourth of eight children of Owen Brown and Ruth Mills, a “poor but respectable” family according to John Brown himself. Both his maternal and paternal grandfathers were officers in the American Revolutionary War.

When Brown was very young, his family moved from Torrington to West Simsbury, Connecticut, then to Hudson, Ohio, in 1805. This area of Ohio was primarily wilderness but would soon become the most anti-slavery region of the United States. His father Owen Brown became an affluent

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