Dr. Mudd House Museum

[wpbinzel]

(06-21-2024 01:28 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(06-21-2024 11:24 AM)wpbinzel Wrote:  If you suggested anything to the contrary, she would chase you off the property,

This is exactly correct. In c.1982 Vicki and I were asked to leave the property when I told her many of my students did not believe the fake beard story.

People like to think about "degrees of separation," so if you met Mrs. Arehart, she was the daughter of Samuel Mudd, II, who was born in January 1864 and would have been nearly a year-old when JW Booth stayed with the Mudds in mid-December 1864. Booth liked children, and likely interacted with Mudd II. Mudd II certainly interacted with his daughter, Louise Mudd Arehart. That means that you and Vicki are only two people removed from John Wilkes Booth. Just in case you had not thought about it that way....