Wow Dave, you are experiencing a full blown Nerdgasm here... and yes, I wish I could try this some day too. No matter how good those crickets look when you get hungry, don't do it.

How do you plan to simulate the feeling of being relentlessly pursued?
May I suggest going to a vacation time share sales meeting and not buying one.

Since Wilkes Booth was eager to read the newspapers while he was in the pines, Dave is wise to do his reenactment now -- before print newspapers completely disappear, unfortunately.

(04-11-2014 02:41 PM)Lincoln Wonk Wrote:  Since Wilkes Booth was eager to read the newspapers while he was in the pines, Dave is wise to do his reenactment now -- before print newspapers completely disappear, unfortunately.

Dave might just want to keep up with the baseball scores!

Many thanks to Rick Smith for sending these photos. Rick was at Surratt's Tavern today and took the following photos of Dave:

Those are great photos! Dave looks ready to go on his Great Adventure.

Rick, will you be at the Surratt Tavern to take photos when Dave returns or will he be going straight home?

(04-12-2014 01:39 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Those are great photos! Dave looks ready to go on his Great Adventure.

Rick, will you be at the Surratt Tavern to take photos when Dave returns or will he be going straight home?

Linda,

I would imagine that Dave will be ready to stagger on home.

Rick

Great photos, Dave!!

You are so lucky to be doing this! I used to love things like this when I was young!

Here is the Accuweather forecast for the "pine thicket." There's over a 40 degree difference between Sunday and Tuesday!

Low of 53 degrees tonight
Sunday - sunny with a high of 80
Sunday night - low 60
Monday - breezy with periods of sun - high 74
Monday night - low 59
Tuesday - breezy and cooler with rain - high 63
Tuesday night - low 37
Wednesday - sunny 52

Please, lord, tell me I don't see weapons on park land...

(04-12-2014 06:58 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Please, lord, tell me I don't see weapons on park land...

Laurie,

The handguns are non-firing reproduction models.

Rick

(04-12-2014 06:58 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Please, lord, tell me I don't see weapons on park land...

Are you referring to his scowl ? I've heard wearing 19th century clothes will do that to you.

I've worn 19th Century apparel quite a bit in my youth -- but only scowled when I wore a corset in 90+ degree weather!

Dave has updated his Twitter page.

https://twitter.com/BoothieBarn?original...4983894017

Lindsey here with an update:

I went and saw our fearless Boothie out in the woods around 1 PM and took a picture as "proof of life" for his Twitter page!

He's asked me to keep you all updated here as well so he did some filming along the Booth tour yesterday before we dropped him off at Loyola and after the bus pulled off, walked to his designated spot and set up camp. Yesterday was pretty warm so he was hot in his thick 19th century clothing but then got pretty cold last night. I brought him some food (ham, bread, and water yummm) just likes Jones did and will be back tomorrow. So he's bored, but did some filming that he's happy with, and hopefully will do more tomorrow.