Taking John Brown from coast to coast

April of 2015 was the first time that I went to both coasts in the same month. The beginning of the month was Spring Break, and a week in Los Angeles, Monterey, San Francisco, and points in between. We ended our trip in San Francisco, and that’s where this story picks up. City Lights Bookstore

A badass of historic proportions

I’ll be the first to admit that I love John Brown. And the reason for it is really quite simple. He lived in a time and a place where owning human beings as property was sanctioned by hundreds of years of tradition. It was a practice older than America itself, but John Brown still knew