Courtesy of Dr. Terry Alford:

http://www.smithsonian.com/history/the-s...180954317/

We will have both the March issue of Smithsonian Magazine and the special edition on the assassination available (in limited quantities) at the Surratt Conference.

Laurie, it's always great how you care to make things possible...thanks also for sharing the Colchester article. I was most surprised to read in "JWB Day by Day" that JWB "hung out" with His self-entitled Lordship but there was not that much background info.

I would like to second Eva. I was aware of Colchester from reading Mary Lincoln books, but there was so much more here. Loved the "What did Charles Colchester know and when did he know it?"

(Remember this?)

My favorite line from Dr. Alford's article is, "Since he was as receptive to distilled spirits as to ethereal ones, most of the money he received for his sittings went straight to whiskey".

The article had information I'd not seen before including that Colchester visited Booth several days before the assassination. I found the following quote from Dr. Alford's article intriguing. "When Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, the search for the assassin and his accomplices commenced immediately. Col. Henry H. Wells, a top military policeman, went to the National Hotel to look for information about the actor. Bunker, the room clerk, told him about Booth’s association with Colchester and said the medium had been staying at the Washington House hotel. But Wells couldn’t find Colchester at the Washington, nor anywhere else in the city. Like the spirits he summoned, Colchester had disappeared.

(02-24-2015 05:01 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Courtesy of Dr. Terry Alford:

http://www.smithsonian.com/history/the-s...180954317/

We will have both the March issue of Smithsonian Magazine and the special edition on the assassination available (in limited quantities) at the Surratt Conference.

Laurie, do you by any chance have any copies left?

I would love a copy. My local Barnes & Noble is sold out!

(04-03-2015 08:07 PM)Dawn E Foster Wrote:  

(02-24-2015 05:01 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Courtesy of Dr. Terry Alford:

http://www.smithsonian.com/history/the-s...180954317/

We will have both the March issue of Smithsonian Magazine and the special edition on the assassination available (in limited quantities) at the Surratt Conference.

Laurie, do you by any chance have any copies left?

I'm pretty sure we still have some copies and can also order more. Please send me an email at work to jog my memory. I'm flexing off "overtime" - for which we don't get paid - after putting in so many extra hours at the conference. I won't return to work until Wednesday.

P.S. Forget what I just said. I called the museum; we do still have copies (dumb me forgot to ask how much); I asked a staff member to pull one of each and leave on my desk.

The museum is hopping today! Dave Taylor is conducting his first tour as narrator over the Booth Escape Route for us. Please send good thoughts because his first group is composed of all lawyers (apologies to any lawyers out there, but y'all can be a tough group to keep up with!). No sooner did that bus pull out than regular visitors started walking in. Rick Smith is one of the guides today, so I hope it stays busy 'cause Rick enjoys to be kept busy.

I send good thoughts to both Dave and Rick!

Kudos to Dave!

Thanks, Laurie!

(04-04-2015 11:29 AM)L Verge Wrote:  

(04-03-2015 08:07 PM)Dawn E Foster Wrote:  

(02-24-2015 05:01 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Courtesy of Dr. Terry Alford:

http://www.smithsonian.com/history/the-s...180954317/

We will have both the March issue of Smithsonian Magazine and the special edition on the assassination available (in limited quantities) at the Surratt Conference.

Laurie, do you by any chance have any copies left?

I'm pretty sure we still have some copies and can also order more. Please send me an email at work to jog my memory. I'm flexing off "overtime" - for which we don't get paid - after putting in so many extra hours at the conference. I won't return to work until Wednesday.

P.S. Forget what I just said. I called the museum; we do still have copies (dumb me forgot to ask how much); I asked a staff member to pull one of each and leave on my desk.

The museum is hopping today! Dave Taylor is conducting his first tour as narrator over the Booth Escape Route for us. Please send good thoughts because his first group is composed of all lawyers (apologies to any lawyers out there, but y'all can be a tough group to keep up with!). No sooner did that bus pull out than regular visitors started walking in. Rick Smith is one of the guides today, so I hope it stays busy 'cause Rick enjoys to be kept busy.

Laurie,

Not long after the Escape Route bus left the premises, and the usual call had come in from the Mudd House, the deluge began. We were very busy.

By the way, young Dave looked great in his 19th century period clothing, and I complimented him on it.

I didn't know that Dave was going to be in period dress for the tour. Good for him!