Henry Box Brown was an American enslaved person who succeeded in escaping slavery by hiding in a packing crate that was shipped from the slave state of Virginia, where Brown had worked on a plantation and in a tobacco factory, to the free state of Pennsy
It was taken in Lake Placid New York in early October of that year at “John Brown’s Farm”. This is the resting place of the abolitionist (and leader of the rebelllion at Harper’s Ferry). It is is now an National Monument. The image depicts the contrast of “peak” leaf color ...
CFPR's Ann was even dressed like a pug! That was a pure hit, too! She must have been burning up in that suit, though! (A panting mess, I am sure!) And Ann's hubby sat near us and shared more historic facts! We had the double bonus box seats! We've added a few extra photo...
But having a Henry Singleton say this is quite interesting because here’s a guy who created value because he was flexible and did not paint himself into a box, or an industry, or accede to the demands of investment analysts.Let’s turn to the biography by George Roberts entitled Distance...
You can’t have a social position at Utica any more than you can have an opera-box. Pandora hasn’t got one; where, if you please, should she have got it? Poor girl, it isn’t fair of you to make her the subject of such questions as that.” “Well,” said Vogelstein, “if ...
The Oblong Box The Office The Open Boat The Open Window The Other Two The Oval Portrait The Overcoat The Pedestrian The Pendulum by O. Henry The Piece of String The Pimienta Pancakes The Pit and the Pendulum The Premature Burial The Problem of Thor Bridge The Purloined ...
only it naturally couldn't have been known to him how much a spectator looking from one to the other might have discerned that they had in common. It wouldn't for such a spectator have been altogether insupposable that, each so finely brown and so sharply spare, each confessing so to ...
It would have been absurd of him to trace into ramifications the effect of the ribbon from which Miss Gostrey’s trinket depended, had he not for the hour, at the best, been so given over to uncontrolled perceptions. What was it but an uncontrolled perception that his friend’s velvet ba...
Chad was brown and thick and strong, and of old Chad had been rough. Was all the difference therefore that he was actually smooth? Possibly; for that he WAS smooth was as marked as in the taste of a sauce or in the rub of a hand. The effect of it was general—it had retouched ...