Dr. Mudd House Museum

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When Laurie Verge passed away, and the M-NCPPC took the Surratt House Museum in a different direction away from its role in the Lincoln assassination, I was asked by an unnamed and unindicted co-conspirator to become a docent leading tours at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd. I was hesitant, as I knew Louise Mudd Arehart, and according to her, Dr. Mudd was a simple country doctor. If you suggested anything to the contrary, she would chase you off the property, with or without her broom in hand. Times have changed. Members of the Mudd family (who are friends) and Bob Bowser (who does not get enough credit for maintaining the Mudd House Museum) encourage docents to present the facts (as best we know them), and let people make their own decisions. It is exactly what Laurie always encouraged at the Surratt House Museum.