Harpers Ferry

Gray T-shirt featuring Mennen's ad on the front. Back is plain gray. Text reads: Mennen's Borated Talcum Toilet Powder Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. 50% cotton, 50% polyester. The faded painting on the face of Maryland Heights was an early 1900s advertisement aimed at passengers on the B&O Railroad, which was a heavily traveled rail line. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, painting advertisements on brick buildings and stone cliffs was very popular. As transportation shifted to roads and automobiles, advertisements moved to billboards and highways. Many local residents believed it to be a “desecration of nature”, so in 1963 volunteers from the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club scaled the cliff and attempted to eradicate the ad with paint remover and carbon black. Four years later, the sign was visible once again and has since been left alone.

Magnet featuring the Mennen's advertisment seen on the cliffside of Maryland Heights. Text reads: Mennen's Borated Talcum Toilet Powder. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Measures 2" x 3.125". Weighs 1 oz.

Bookmark featuring photos of the 1906 Niagara Movement meeting and information on the meeting which took place in Harpers Ferry. Gloss cover. Measures 7" x 2.25".

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. "An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." --New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Leebetrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty. Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group. Hardcover with dust jacket, 588 pages. Measures 6.7" x 9.5" x 1.5". Weighs 2 lb 2.6 oz.