We had such a good free parking space across from the visitor center and Olympic stadium that we decided to walk everywhere. The first stop was Lake Placid Brewing. Then we walked to Great Adirondack Brewing. On the way we stopped at Emma’s Creamery and bought an ice cream cone. Today is National Ice Cream Day. We took a picture of Mirror Lake. We never could find access to take a good picture of Lake Placid.
Jim saw that the small town not too far away had a brewery so we drove there. Blue Line Brewery in Lake Saranac showed on their website $2.00 beers on Sunday. We each got one. We didn’t finish either one -- we didn’t like them. Jim just decided to pay and the bartender told him the tab was $8.00. Jim told him he read on the website beers were $2.00 on Sunday. The bartender told him he forgot and Jim was right, the tab was $4.00, but that the $2.00 beer was mainly for locals and that he would change the website if he could. So, besides beer not being to our taste, the bartender was rude and trying to get over on tourists. He just didn’t know Jim checks things out.
Jim wanted to stop at another nearby site and beside it was an Olympic ski jump. This site was the farm and grave of John Brown. You’ve probably heard of the old Civil War song “John Brown’s body lies a mouldering in the grave". John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed that armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. In 1859 he led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia that ended with his capture. Brown's trial resulted in his conviction for treason, murder, and slave insurrection. He was executed by hanging.
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