>>EXCERPT ONE — NEW JERSEY: | Eagleswood, Where John Brown’s Men’s Bodies Lie a Moldering. The Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, NJ, was started by Rebecca and Marcus Spring (1810–1874) in 1861. The Springs initially started the Raritan Bay Union utopian community in 1853. Rebecca had the bodies of A.D. Stevens and A.E. Hazlett, from John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, buried on her property. The grounds, approximately 260 acres, were recorded in the largest survey conducted by Henry David Thoreau.
>>EXCERPT TWO — NEW MEXICO: | Thar’s a party now deceased a whole lot the Stranglers over in Socorro sort o chaperones this yere gent to a cottonwood an excloodes the air from his lungs with a lariat for mebby it’s an hour an this party I’m alloodin at which his name is Fowler is plumb murderous.