Tudor Hall Special Talk Series: The Immigrant Booths

Tudor Hall, home of Bel Air, Maryland’s famous family of Shakespearean actors including Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, will be hosting a special talk on Sunday, June 17 at 2:00pm, on the “Immigrant Booths: Richard, Junius, Mary Ann and Adelaide.”

Richard Booth was John Wilkes’ grandfather and Junius Brutus and Mary Ann Booth were John Wilkes’ parents.

This special talk will be presented by Booth family and Lincoln Assassination historians Jim Garrett and John Howard.

According to Tom Fink, president of the Junius B. Booth Society, Tudor Hall is a Gothic Revival style cottage built by the famous Shakespearian actor, Junius Brutus Booth Sr, patriach of the Booth family. After moving to America and living in Baltimore, Junius bought land in Harford County and moved a log house he bought from a neighbor to the property near a spring. In 1850, he began construction of the house that stands today.

Jim Garrett is a life-long Lincoln Assassination and Booth enthusiast, a volunteer at Ford’s Theatre and a tour guide for Washington DC’s Old Town Trolley Tours and Private Tours of Washington. He is co-author of The Lincoln Assassination: Where Are they Now? and The Flags of Ford’s Theatre.

John Howard is a lifelong resident of New Jersey and was given a thirst for knowledge by his parents, especially his mother. He spent 30 years in biomedical research and supervising hospital laboratories. Recently he added another full time job: teaching High School science while still working as a Pathologist Assistant. He has been a student of the Lincoln Assassination ever since being told by his mother that her grandmother was taken by her father to see Abraham Lincoln lying in state at New York’s City Hall. Since then he has worked at learning all he could about the event. It was also his mother who introduced him to the subject of the Lindbergh kidnapping which is his other major subject of research. He is currently one of the staff historians who lead the popular twelve hour John Wilkes Booth Escape tour for the Surratt Society and has been involved with the Society from its inception.

Talk starts at 2:00 pm and lasts about 45 minutes. Located at Tudor Hall, 17 Tudor Lane, Bel Air, MD 21015. $5.00 cash for those ages 13 and older. For more info call 443-619-0008 or email at SpiritsOfTudorHall@gmail.com. For other tour dates go to http://spiritsoftudorhall.blogspot.com