Historical sites you’ve been to or want to go to thread

[honeychile]

Carnation, when my brother got home from Vietnam, he took me to a Vietnam Veterans Against the War concert at Point State Park. While he & his wife were getting high, I wandered off and ended up behind the stage. Everyone was much too high to really protest, but it was a good concert! I met Peter Stookey and John Kay of Steppenwolf, who were just hanging around. They asked me my name, and I was so shy, I stuttered my name!

[Zach]

I’d like to see the MLK, Jr. National Historic Park, the African American History museum (again.. I’ve been), and I’d like to do some traveling around the south to see some of the plantations that are still standing. There’s also the barn that Emmett Till was beaten and killed in that I want to see.

[honeychile]

Another trip I've taken was the John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Tour. If you're interested in the Lincoln Assassination, this is fascinating! It starts in the hotel/bar that Mary Surratt owned in Maryland, goes into DC to Ford's Theatre, The Peterson House (where Lincoln died), drives by the house where the plot to kill Lincoln was hatched (it's now a Chinese restaurant!), and heads back to Maryland & Virginia, following the route the JWB & David Herod took & the stops they made.

This is a bus tour and takes about 12 hours, with several stops & lunch. I was blessed to sit next to Michael W. Kauffman, who has written several books about the Assassination for much of the tour.

If you're interested, go to John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Tour, sponsored by the Surratt Society. FWIW, Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the Federal Government for her role in the Assassination.