A one and a half story log cabin sits tucked in the woods at Brookside Nature Center in Wheaton, MD. Prior to 1976, this cabin was a two-story house built in the 1870s in the post-emancipation free Black community of Jonesville, MD. For decades, its true history went untold. Tony visits with museum supervisor, Shirl Spicer to discuss the cabin’s two lives and efforts made to present a more accurate history of the structure.

This is the first in a series of four episodes that explore the history of the Harper Cabin at Brookside Nature Center in Wheaton, MD.

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