5. John Brown Museum State Historic Site (Osawatomie, Kansas) The cabin of Rev. Samuel Adair and his wife, which John Brown used as his headquarters during the “Bleeding Kansas” era, is small, but we admire curator Grady Atwater’s big plans. Last year, Atwater brought in the usual suspects for the Freedom Festival (Bob Green as John W. Reid; Kerry Altenbernd as John Brown), which re-creates the 1856 battle between Brown’s abolitionists and Reid’s Missouri bushwhackers. But Atwate


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