John Brown's body

Harper's Ferry National park was well worth the trip. We all went over today for a civil war tour with a very earnest guide named Tyler Gumm. Tyler gave a somewhat interesting account of a major confederate win at Harper's Ferry. His particular area of interest was statistics...There was a lot of mention of ammunition weights etc...We all perked up though when he mentioned that the union army arrived in the area with 2,000 pound of bacon!
There was a free shuttle into the historical village which consisted of about 10 mini museums along the banks of the Shenandoah and the Potomac (and yes, we did see people floating down the river sitting in their own inner tubes!). The Junior Ranger program was well organized and Vinny and I went through most of the sites on a scavenger hunt. As a part of this we walked along a curious footbridge across the Potomac which kind of freaked me out as there was a flimsy side fence and we could have fallen to our death at any moment. West Virginians are clearly rugged people.
On the way back Tyler invited Vinny to help him take down the flag.