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Teachers enjoy lunch on Maryland Heights

2008 Education Programs

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park offers numerous interpretive programs throughout the year. The Harpers Ferry Historical Association has developed additional educational activities to complement park programs, and to enrich the experiences of visitors to the park and the local community. Please join us on one of these exciting new programs.

Teacher Institutes

The goal of the Teacher Institutes is to train teachers to use natural and cultural resource information in their classroom. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will be the institute classroom. One theme will be highlighted each year.

June 23-27
John Brown: The Road to Harpers Ferry
You are invited to join this 2008 Teacher's Institute at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Walk in the footsteps of John Brown and those around him as you learn about events leading up to the 1859 raid on the Harpers Ferry Armory. [Learn more]

Park rangers present living history program

Left: Participants on a 1995 teacher's institute enjoy lunch atop the cliffs of Maryland Heights overlooking the Potomac River. (Photo by David T. Gilbert)

Above: Park rangers present a living history program about the Civil War on Schoolhouse Ridge. (NPS Photo)