Booth in Boston April 1865

[L Verge]

I, too, have always questioned that automatic assumption that Lucy Hale was the one who registered with Booth in Newport. I know that Lucy was a liberal thinker and supposedly "ahead of her time," but given her station in life, her father's prominence, and the fact that Newport was likely an area where she was known, I find it very difficult to believe that she would be that promiscuous. I smell modern standards at work here.