Booth Escape Tour

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(05-01-2016 06:54 PM)KateH. Wrote:  "John Wilkes Booth" did what? Ate cake? I guess it would have taken too much effort for the complainer to actually spend half a minute reading the sign and learning something. Oh well, no matter where you go there is always one.

Trust me. After forty years in the history museum field, I've found many more than just one.

I am always being asked when I am going to write a book. If I ever do, it will not be on the Lincoln assassination; it will be a narrative on the wide variety of people that you have to deal with on at least a weekly basis -- from being sued for your opinion, having some people try to get you fired for something you did not start, for trying to tell facts to refute weak theories, surviving a bomb threat, protecting volunteers by calming down a "strange" customer and calling police (while your staff all hide in an upstairs bathroom), and I could go on.

And then there will be chapters on the wonderful people I have met, have learned from, and whom I call my friends because of my love for history in general and the Lincoln assassination field in particular. You choose your battles, roll with the tide, calm down and politely deal with the angry man and move on. There will be a new experience tomorrow.