We Have A Problem, Houston

[L Verge]

Rick made long treks of over a hundred miles one way numerous times each year for over a decade to keep the site spruced up. When the highway people decided to pick the historical marker up and move it to the wrong side of the road, Rick also went to his personal expense of having a sign made to sit in the correct pathway to the home site. We Boothies are dedicated to historic preservation - whether good events or bad events, related sites have changed our history in someway -- and the sites along the Booth escape route each played a part in a very significant event in history!

It has been interesting to me how one inquiry by a sloppily done TV show has brought about such change. The government has owned this property since the 1940s, and they have known about our Booth tour visits since 1977. They have never challenged the Surratt Society - and used to have an employee who would sometimes meet visitors to the site and talk history with them. Now, thanks to the Diggers program, everything is off limits.