FIVE DAYS IN MAY 2011...May 18-19-20-21-22, 2011 ................................................

(Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday)

YES!!!! Our Four Days In May Battlefield Tour is going to be a FIVE Days In May Battlefield Tour of The John Wilkes Booth Escape & Retreat Route

EVERYONE AND ANYONE is welcome to join us on this great Battlefield Tour. You do not have to be a member of this Roundtable or any other Roundtable or any other Profit or Nonprofit organization. You don't even have to be a member of any organized Social group or state or country. You can be a HERMIT!!!! RECLUSES are also welcome!!! We will accomodate you as much as we can to meet you there and reflect that in your total price!!! That is something we do all of the time. each year, we have a few of our Tour meet us at the Tour locations. Our usual Tour Group should include our old friends from many of the other CWRTs and Historical groups in New England and down South. Come along with your friends and neighbors, bring your In-Laws or your Out-Laws!!! Tell your Children's History Departments and let them join us!!!

FIVE (5) DAYS IN MAY..May 18-19-20-21-22, 2011 We are going to follow The John Wilkes Booth Escape & Retreat Route in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia

Wednesday, May 18, 2011---Travel Day to Comfort Inn Capital Beltway Hotel.....We will stay for the entire FOUR (4) evenings here with FREE Continental Breakfasts). Your lunch and evening meal after our arrival is on each Tour member.

Thursday, May 19, 2011..DAY #1 of TOUR...We will see Ford's Theater Exterior, the Back Door, and the Box Office Door, along with The Petersen House. We will also see Baptist Alley and The 11th Street Bridge. From there we will go by The Surratt Boarding House and the David Herold House. After this we will will visit The Surratt Tavern & Museum (ADMISSION)and The The Samuel Mudd Museum & Tavern(ADMISSION). After this we will see St, Mary's Cemetery, Rich Hill (home of Thomas Jones & Samuel Cox), The Lucas Cabin, The Pine Thicket, do a Potromac River crossing to see Cleydel Mansion (the home of Stuart Calvert) and The Quesenberry House (home of Elizabeth Quesenberry. After this we will see Brokenbrough (the home of Sarah Jane Peyton) and The Garrett Farm before returning to our Hotel. Your evening meal is on you.

Friday, May 20, 2011..DAY #2 of Tour will ALL be in Washington...We will visit The National Museum of Health & Medicine (ADMISSION)...After this we will go The Lincoln Summer Home and visit Congressional Cemetery to the gravesite of Davey Herold. From here we will go to The Mt. Olivet Cemetery which is the site of The Mary Surratt cemetery. From here we will go to the Old Capital Prison and Fort Leslie McNair (site of The Hangings of The Conspirators including Mary Surratt). We will then return back to the Hotel. We will probably have lunch at The Washington Mall which will be on Tour members). Our evening meal (included in your price) will be at The Phillips Harbor Restaurant in Washington and will include a program afterwards by James Getty as President Lincoln.

Saturday, May 21, 2011...DAY #3 of Tour will all be in Baltimore...We will visit Greenmount Cemetery with the gravesites of John Wilkes Booth, Samuel Arnold, Edmun Spangler, & Michael OLaughlin. We will then go to The New Cathedral Cemetery which is the gravesite of John Surratt. After this we will go to Fort Mchenry to participate in The Flag Lowering Ceremony which is held at 4:00 p.m.. This will also include a talk by NPS Ranger Scott Sheads on the imprisonment of John Surratt at Fort McHenry. After we return to the Hotel, we will have our evening meal (included in your price) will be at the Phillips Harbor Restaurant in Baltimore which will also include a program afterwards by Michael Kaufman. Our Saturday lunch will be at the McCormick & Schmicks restuarant and is included in your price.

Sunday, May 22, 2011 Travel Day Home where again your meals along the route home are on Tour members.

The price for this GREAT Tour will be $595.00 for Double Room occupancy and $825.00 for a Single Room accomodation.

Please join us when we once again visit more great American Civil War This Trip will sell out quickly, so send your $50.00 deposit in right now to hold your place.Make out checks to CWRT of GB and send to Dave Smith 3 Waverley Oaks Rd #202 Waltham, Ma. 02452-6274 or for details contact Dave at 781-647-3332 or cwrtmass@comcast.net. Send in your deposits quickly as possible. This will be ANOTHER great Al Smith Tour and the MOST COMPREHENSIVE Tour that he has EVER done. REFUNDS will be given for reasonable cause............................This Tour will be done by none other than DALE FLOYD and will feature once again James (President Abraham Lincoln) Getty and Michael Kaufman and others as Guest Speakers!!! This Tour will also be one of the feature events being sponsored by The Civil War Round Table of Greater Boston in its remembrance of The Civil War Sesquicentennial where we are a part of the mebership of The Mass. Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission..

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Our Four Days In May for 2010 that we just completed to Gettysburg was a complete and total success, according to EVERYONE that was on this tour. Troy Harman was our Tourguide and did a fantastic job, according to EVERYONE that was on thiis Tour. After we checked into the Hotel in Gettysburg and ate an evening meal, we adjourned to the Hotel Conference Room for a dual presentation by Troy Harman and James Getty. On Friday morning, we met the new Superintendent Bob Kirby at the Visitor's Center who spoke with us and answered some questions for about thirty minutes. We then began our Tour of Gettysburg with Troy giving his different vision of "Lee's Real Plan At Gettysburg" (the title of his book) which completely enthralled our group.

We basically covered Days #1 & #2 before retiring to our hotel for a freshening up and change for Dinner at The Dobbins House. After our REALLY GREAT meal, James Getty, (joining us again with his real life wife) gave us aanother wonderful presentation about being Abe Lincoln.After this, we had a chance to meet and hear Nicholas Redding of The CWPT who spoke about their work and our mutual opposition to a Gambling Casino anywhere mear Gettysburg. I have had the chance to get to know him a little, having been part of their Teleconferencing calls recently about Preservation. I then made a presentation of a $500.00 check to him comprised of $200.00 proceeds from the Thursday Bus Raffle and another $300.00 from the Boston Treasury. Dexter Bishop of The Northshore Chapter then made a $150.00 Presentation to him from their Treasury. Nick was thrilled to have the chance to meet and greet a great group of people up close and personal, and see our passion for solving our mutual problems. On Saturday, we began witrh a couple of hours at the Visitor's center for the film and The Cyclorama and some shopping for more Civil War books. Troy then fininshed up the day with Culp's Hill, Pickett's Charge, and Cemetery Ridge Touring. Aftger this we returned to the hotel and changed for ANOTHER GREAT meal. at The Farnsworth House!!!! Sunday was a leisuerly ride back home. Cannot wait until next year!!!!