2010-2011
SPECIAL EVENTS LIST-
THE CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF GREATER
BOSTON (est. 1957)
Check The Four Days In May link for
details and prices
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 Surrat 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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ALWAYS CHECK THESE SITES OUT FOR THEIR
SPECIAL EVENTS---
The Bostonian Society.................http://www.bostonhistory.org
The History Channel...................http://www.historychannel.com
The Blue & Grey Society...............http://www.blue-and-gray-education.org
The African American Meeting House....http://www.afroammuseum.org
The National Archives in Waltham.......http://www.archives.gov/northeast
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October 23-24, 2010 from 9:00 a.m.
to 5;00 p.m. at Camp Edwatrds (Connery Ave.) Bourne MASS. MILITARY RESERVATION
OPEN HOUSE....there will be Displays and demonstrationa and Rides and a Repelling
Tower and an obstacle Course and living History Camps.. It is FREE to the Public
and any Vendors. For details go to lawrence.clinton@us.army.mil
or the MMR website ...http://savetheydhq.tripod.com
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Rhode
Island Living History on September 18-19, 2010---Contact Dave Procaccini RISUVCW
and RIMOLLUS at 401-749-4689 or repairsquadron38@aol.com.....This
is the Elisha Dyer Camp 7 on the grounds of RI Civil War Governor Sprague's
Mansion. This is a fundraiser seeking more individuals or groups for CW Music
or author signings....Also see www.dyercamp7.org
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September 19, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. in
The Ridgelawn Cemetery on Highland Ave & Stuart St.(Tel: 617-972-6479) in
Watertown, Ma. for the Rededication of The Gravesite of Lt. George Eaton Priest.
This is a joint sponsorship of The CWRT of Greater Boston and The Historical
Society of Watertown and The Mass. Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. We
will be joined by MOLLUS, The Watertown Veterans Services, Lt. Priest's family
members, and many more,....so PLEASE join us!!!!
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September 18--19, 2010 Major
Reenactment and Living history of "The Battle of Windy Knoll" at The
Alta Vista Bison Farm in Rutland, Ma. There will be battles on both afternoons.
Military, civilian, vendors, farm stores on site. Parking is $10.00 per car.
This is sponsored by The New England Brigade, 12th Georgia Co. F & Dave
Gallagher at luft1221@hotmail.com.
For informatioon Matt Burbank and check http://twelvega.tripod.comid34.html
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Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 12:30
p.m. at the St. Gaudens NHS at 139 Saint-Gaudens Rd. Cornish, N.H. will be The
Mass. 54th Vol. Inf. Regiment along with the Colored Ladies Society doing a
presentation on the impact of the Shaw Memorial in downtown boston. They will
also discuss their particular Reenacting Unit, history and their legacy. nThere
will be a Q & A session after their presentations with details available
at www.nps.gov/saga/
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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2010 at the Edmund
Fowle House in Watertown, Ma.. we celebrated the Reenactment of a double Special
Occasion.... The reading for the first time in Watertown on July 18, 1776 at
the Fowle House, of the new Declaration of Independence by the new United States
of America, recently declared. The Fowle House at that time, because of the
dangers to our seat of Government in Boston, was moved to The Fowle House.
This
day was sponsored by The Historical Society of Watertown. Governor's Councillor
Marilyn Devaney is seen in the white dress reading the original Treaty After
this, we also did a Reenactment of the signing on July 19, 1776, upstairs in
the Fowle House. This is the FIRST treaty ever signed with a foreign Nation,
that being the M'ikmaq and St. John's Tribes of Native Americans. As far as
we know today, that may still be the ONLY Treaty ever signed by this Government
with any Native American Tribe that WE have never broken.
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