Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth

Last weekend we took a daytrip to Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, perhaps most famous for John Brown's raid prior to the US Civil War. It was also home to one of the first two arsenals in the US, where the government would manufacture its weapons. That, plus its prime location at the place where Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia meet, made it a significant prize during the Civil War. It changed hands between north and south many times, and at one point it was torched by retreating Union forces, to prevent its resources from falling into the hands of the Confederates.

In this video, a volunteer from a local historical society in period costume talks about the arsenal ruins. -andy