The Spur Question

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Back to the spur: I had a very nice visit (unannounced) this morning with a descendant of the Reams family who informed me that the spur at the Naval Academy Museum has been removed from their exhibits and no one seemed to know where it is. She suspects that it is sitting in a storage room somewhere.

She intends to discuss this with her numerous cousins to see if they are agreeable to having it removed from that museum and placed elsewhere. She asked my opinion on where it should go, and I said Ford's Theatre, with the recommendation that the NPS exhibit both spurs in the same display case with a synopsis of the "provenance" of each and the label ending with "What do you think? Did either spur come from the assassin's boot?"

I gave her the email address for the curator at Ford's, if they decide to go that route. If I learn more, I'll keep you updated.

Roger - I also gave her information on this forum and your email so that she can contact you directly about joining.