Make Plans to Visit Tudor Hall in 2024

 

The historic Tudor Hall is a fascinating piece of our nation's history. When you visit, you'll connect to the story of the Maryland Booths who left their mark on America forever. You'll walk where they walked, lived, played, worked and dreamed. When you visit, this part of history comes alive.

The property and first floor of Tudor Hall will be open to visitors for tours in 2024 at 1:00 & 2:00 PM on the dates listed below. This year there are exciting Special Talks replacing the 2:00 tours on the dates listed with a (*). All 1:00 and other 2:00 tours will feature the general tour. All tours and talks last about 45 minutes. See below for details of the special talks and regular tours.

 Tudor Hall is located at:
17 Tudor Lane,  Bel Air, MD 21015
The cost of each Special Talk and each regular tour is $5.00 cash for those age 13 and older.
For more information:
443-619-0008 or SpiritsOfTudorHall@gmail.com  

April 7* & 21*; May 5* & 19*; June 2* & 16* &  30*; July 14* & 28*; August 11* & 25*; September 8 & 22*; October 6 & 20*; November 10*

 

*April 7
John Wilkes Booth on the Northern Neck
by Jim Garrett

*April 21
John Wilkes Booth at the Garrett Farm
by Jim Garrett

*May 5 & *August 11
Asia, the Sister of John Wilkes Booth shares her memories of John Wilkes and the Booth Family
by Lisa Samia
 
*May 19 & *June 30
The Forgotten Women of the Lincoln Assassination
by Kathryn Canavan

*June 2
Brides of Bluebeard: John Wilkes Booth’s Paramours; from Isabel Sumner to Ella Starr
by Kate Jones
 
*June 16
Life Imitating Art: How John Wilkes Booth Scripted the Lincoln Conspiracy and How Fate Refused to Cooperate with His Plans
by Michael Kauffman

 

*July 14
"Dear Lucy": Letters to the Assassin John Wilkes Booth’s Bride
by Kate Jones

*July 28
Junius Brutus Booth’s Last Trip Home
by Jim Garrett

*August 25  Canceled

 (This date is canceled due to water damage to Tudor Hall. The tour and talk is canceled for repairs. This talk has been rescheduled for October 6. Thank you for understanding and we hope to see you then!)

 Patriarchal Patriot: the Revolutionary Richard Booth, the Father of Junius and Grandfather of John Wilkes
by Kate Jones

*September 22   Canceled
This talk and tour has been cancelled due to repairs for water damage to Tudor Hall. We apologize for the inconvenience. 

A Long Look Backwards: Life from the Pen of Asia Booth, Sister of John Wilkes
by Kate Jones

 

* October 6 Update!  

Kate Jones' 2:00 PM  talk is canceled due to illness and has been rescheduled for October 20.
There will be the regular 1:00 tour and a 2:00 tour in place of Kate's talk on October 6.. 

 
*October 20

Patriarchal Patriot: the Revolutionary Richard Booth, the Father of Junius and Grandfather of John Wilkes
by Kate Jones

 
*November 10
Relics and Artifacts from John Wilkes Booth
by Jim Garrett

Here ere are the speakers:

Kathryn Canavan is an independent researcher and the author of Lincoln’s Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America’s Greatest President. She started her journalism career as a crime reporter. She eventually worked as reporter or editor in four states and was a National Health Journalism Fellow at USC’s Annenberg School. To get a story, Canavan has reported at gunpoint, lived with the Moonies, negotiated with a killer and joined Tug McGraw in the Phillies dugout. 

She began researching the unintended consequences of the Lincoln assassination in 2009. Lincoln's Final Hours has been featured on CSPAN and PBS Newsworks. She explores the effect that one extraordinary night had on the ordinary Washingtonians who witnessed what happened inside Petersen's Boarding House on the night President Lincoln died there. Their eyewitness accounts provide telling new details about the assassination. Some went on to lead lives that are the stuff of novels, and others came to sad ends. 

Jim Garrett is a life-long Lincoln Assassination and Booth enthusiast and researcher. He was a tour conductor for Historic Tours of America in Washington D.C. (rated #1 in the Washington Post and # 2 in the nation by Forbes.)
     Jim is currently with Guided Tours Unscripted which concentrates on tours of Arlington National Cemetery, Capitol Hill, Ford’s Theatre, the Petersen House where Lincoln died, and the immediate environs.

Kate Jones is a 19th century murder researcher, speaker, and living historian who specializes in the Lincoln assassination, the Lizzie Borden murders, and the case of the "Devil in the White City" multi-murderer, Dr. H. H. Holmes. She has presented on different aspects of the Lincoln assassination for several organizations including the Surratt Society and Fort Lesley J. McNair. Kate also speaks about the events of 1865 through her work at the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum and Historic Port Tobacco Village.

Michael Kauffman: Author Jonathan Yardley once wrote in the Washington Post Book World that Michael W. Kauffman "has been studying Lincoln generally and the assassination specifically for 40 years, and he appears to know the subject better than anyone else now alive."

Combing through archives all over the U. S., Canada, and the U. K., Kauffman uncovered a staggering number of previously unknown sources to produce American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies (Random House, 2004), which historian David Herbert Donald called "by all means the best" work on the Lincoln assassination. The Wall Street Journal named it one of the five best books ever published on political violence, and Civil War Interactive placed it high on their list of the Most Important Civil War books ever published.

Kauffman had long been a fixture in Civil War studies, with contributions that appeared in Civil War Times, the Washington Post, American Heritage, Blue and Gray, and dozens of other publications. He has lectured throughout the United States and the U. K., and has appeared in documentaries on A&E, The Learning Channel, the History Channel, National Geographic, Discovery, and Travel Channels. American Brutus was his first major book, and it appeared in the Best Books lists of nearly every major media outlet in the United States. It was optioned for a 9-part miniseries on HBO.

Lisa Samia is an award-winning poet, author and speaker who loves American Civil War History. Her latest accomplishments are being selected as the National Parks Arts Foundation's Artist in Residence for Gettysburg National Battlefield Park 2020 & National Parks Service's Artist in Residence for Manassas National Battlefield Park 2021, both for her Civil War Poetry. She recently discovered a set of archived letters written by Asia Booth Clarke, the sister of John Wilkes Booth.

She also devoted three years traveling, researching, and writing the fictional novel series based on John Wilkes Booth “My Name is John Singer,” and "My Name is Mrs. John Singer." Lisa frequently lectures at literary and historical venues, notably The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum, the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House & Museum, The Civil War Interpretive Center Blenheim, The Civil War Round Table Congress, multiple Barnes & Noble locations, and the RJ Julia Bookstores.