Want to come heckle BoothieBarn authors Dave & Kate Taylor in person? Here are some of our public speaking engagements planned for the future.
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2019
Location: Perryville branch of the Cecil County Library (500 Coudon Blvd. Perryville, MD 21903)
Time: 1:00 pmm
Speech: The Making of an Assassin: The History of John Wilkes Booth
Speaker: Dave Taylor
Description: How did John Wilkes Booth go from celebrated actor to villainous assassin? In his speech, Dave will recount the life of John Wilkes Booth and what led him to the Presidential box at Ford’s Theatre.
Cost: Free
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Location: Lynchburg Civil War Round Table (4009 Murray Place, Lynchburg, Virginia 24501)
Time: 7:45 pm
Speech: The Making of an Assassin: The History of John Wilkes Booth
Speaker: Dave Taylor
Description: How did John Wilkes Booth go from celebrated actor to villainous assassin? In his speech, Dave will recount the life of John Wilkes Booth and what led him to the Presidential box at Ford’s Theatre.
Cost: Cost for the talk is $5. Guests are also welcome to come for the buffet dinner starting at 7:00 pm but the cost for that is $25. Information can be found at: https://www.historicsandusky.org/lcwrt
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2019
Location: Surratt House Museum (9118 Brandywine Road, Clinton, MD 20735)
Time: 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Speech: John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Bus Tour
Speaker: Dave Taylor
Description: The 12 hour bus trip which documents the escape of the assassin through Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
Cost: $85. Registration information can be found at: http://www.surrattmuseum.org/booth-escape-tour
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2019
Location: Thomas Stone National Historic Site (6655 Rose Hill Rd, Port Tobacco, MD 20677)
Time: TBD
Speech: Frederick Stone: A Life of Service and Secrets
Speaker: Dave Taylor
Description: Frederick Stone was the great nephew of Thomas Stone, one of the Maryland signers of the Declaration of Independence. Though he never knew his illustrious relative, Frederick lived for a time at his great uncle’s estate of Haber-de-venture before being educated in the law. His lifetime of public service would lead him from lawyer to commissioner to delegate to judge. Along the way, however, Frederick Stone became involved in one of the most traumatic events in our nation’s history: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In his speech, researcher Dave Taylor will explore the life of Frederick Stone and the secrets he carried with him about the death of Abraham Lincoln.
Cost: Free
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2019
Location: Tudor Hall (17 Tudor Ln, Bel Air, MD 21015)
Time: 2:00 pm
Speech: “Born Under an Unlucky Star”: The Childhood of John Wilkes Booth
Speaker: Dave Taylor
Description: In this speech, Dave will examine the boyhood of John Wilkes Booth – his familial relationships, his time growing up at Tudor Hall and in Baltimore, and his early education. More information can be found at: http://spiritsoftudorhall.blogspot.com/2016/11/make-plans-to-visit-tudor-hall-in-2017_7.html
Cost: $5.00 cash for the talk and a tour of Tudor Hall
Date: Sunday, July 7, 2019
Location: Tudor Hall (17 Tudor Ln, Bel Air, MD 21015)
Time: 2:00 pm
Speech: “Brides of Bluebeard”: The Women Who Loved John Wilkes Booth
Speaker: Kate Taylor
Description: John Wilkes Booth was a Romeo both on and off the stage. In her speech, Kate will address some of the romantic relationships that defined the handsome actor who went on to assassinate President Lincoln. More information can be found at: http://spiritsoftudorhall.blogspot.com/2016/11/make-plans-to-visit-tudor-hall-in-2017_7.html
Cost: $5.00 cash for the talk and a tour of Tudor Hall
Date: Sunday, September 15, 2019
Location: Tudor Hall (17 Tudor Ln, Bel Air, MD 21015)
Time: 2:00 pm
Speech: “Brides of Bluebeard”: The Women Who Loved John Wilkes Booth
Speaker: Kate Taylor
Description: John Wilkes Booth was a Romeo both on and off the stage. In her speech, Kate will address some of the romantic relationships that defined the handsome actor who went on to assassinate President Lincoln. More information can be found at: http://spiritsoftudorhall.blogspot.com/2016/11/make-plans-to-visit-tudor-hall-in-2017_7.html
Cost: $5.00 cash for the talk and a tour of Tudor Hall
Date: Sunday, October 13, 2019
Location: Tudor Hall (17 Tudor Ln, Bel Air, MD 21015)
Time: 2:00 pm
Speech: “Born Under an Unlucky Star”: The Childhood of John Wilkes Booth
Speaker: Dave Taylor
Description: In this speech, Dave will examine the boyhood of John Wilkes Booth – his familial relationships, his time growing up at Tudor Hall and in Baltimore, and his early education. More information can be found at: http://spiritsoftudorhall.blogspot.com/2016/11/make-plans-to-visit-tudor-hall-in-2017_7.html
Cost: $5.00 cash for the talk and a tour of Tudor Hall
Additional speeches and information will be posted when available. Past speaking engagements can be seen here: https://boothiebarn.com/about/
If you are interested in having either Dave or Kate speak to your group about any aspect of the Lincoln assassination story, click to Contact Us or email to BoothieBarn@gmail.com
This isn’t about Davy Herold, but your alertness about spotting the doctored photo on a TV show and rewinding it to see if yu were right reminds me of a story: I was sitting at the computer, where I have an angled view of our TV set. My wife was watching “Sex and the City,” a show that I didn’t ever watch. (Shall I dare say it was beneath me?) Anyway, it was the evening of the day I had gone into lower manhattan very early before heading to work, to be filmed for the new “History Detectives” show (which hadn’t even begun to air, as I recall.) They wanted me bec. they learned from Harold Holzer that I might have some knowledge about Sam Chester’s chats with John Wilkes Booth, and they were doing a piece on Chester’s house at 45 Grove Street in Greenwich Village. The segment’s question was — “Did John Wilkes Booth, as rumored, plot to kill Lincoln in the 45 Grove St. house?” (I subsequently appeared for perh. three mins. on the show. I liked it the first couple of times I viewed it. After that I concluded that the segt. was pretty lame and I was somewhat embarrased by it.) So there I am typing away on the computer that night, when suddenly I overheard a scene on my wif’es show with the sound of groans and the rustling of satin sheets. So I got a little “turned on” and took a look. It was a scene in which a beautiful girl was having sex in bed with her boyfriend. Within five secs., the scene ended, and they cut to the bext scene, of two girls talking to ea. other. However, the camera only showed a red building full frame, and then it quickly zoomed out, after only 3 or 4 secs., and immediately panned away, revealing that the girls were in a restaurant, seated by a window through which that building had been seen. I turned back to my computer screen, but suddenly realized that the brick building, which had only been on screen for a couple of seconds, looked like 45 Grove Street. Fortunately, my wife had been videotaping the program for our daughter (in the days before we had DVR’s). So when the show was over, I immediately rewound it to see if I was correct. Sure enough, I was. And it had, indeed, only been on screen for three seconds! It wasn’t that amazing, really, that I identified it; it was more amazing that I had just spent the morning in connection with that very building!
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