John Freitag: A day to honor John Brown is a mistake

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John Freitag, who is currently serving as chair of the Strafford Selectboard and moderator of the Universalist Society of Strafford. As a young man in the 1960s he was involved in the civil rights movement.
Perhaps it is because I recently finished reading “My Life, My Love, My Legacy,” the deeply moving autobiography of Coretta Scott King detailing her lifelong non-violent struggle against racism and injustice — a life that included c