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(04-06-2025 08:19 PM)Wesley Harris Wrote:  Enjoyed the annual "conference" Saturday. Thankful for those serving as Surratt Society officers who are keeping us going. Learned some things I did not know. Ordering Frank's book. Sure miss the in-person get-togethers though. Is there any other conference, etc. that covers our "topic" that we could use as a place to get at least some of us together?

Thank you for your very kind comments, Wes. We hope to get Paul and Frank's presentations posted on the Surratt Society website (as soon as we can find a teenager to show us how to do that...). I will post the link here on Roger's website.

We, too, miss the in-person meetings. The Colony South, where the Surratt Society conferences were held for years, no longer exists (it has been torn down, and nothing has been built to replace it), so to find a new venue; arrange for lodging and food; get speakers; and to tack on trips for Friday and Sunday, is very labor intensive. We would love to do it, but we do not have any staff to support us (and that is a discussion for another time). We are exploring getting the Surratt Society Booth Escape Route Tours back on the road again for the Fall.

As far as other venues, I know that there are some, such as regional meetings of various Civil War Round Tables and the Lincoln Group that meets in Gettysburg in the fall. They are not assassination-specific focused, but I will try to do a better job with getting them posted here.