Ford's Theatre

One of the few non-Colonial period and only Civil War era places we visited was Ford's Theatre.

It was everyone's first time to visit, and it was quite fascinating.

I don't think anyone else would like it as much as this was pretty much it (we didn't have time to visit the museum). I thought the boys and girl would be bored out of their minds as the Ranger simply talked for about 45 minutes. And he had the poor grammar of speaking about the past in the future tense which drove me batty!

But the boys and girl loved learning about history and are used to adults speaking for long periods of time.

It was a tragic tale of the death of our beloved 16th President - the one who saved the nation while fighting to end slavery. It was also surprising to learn that John Wilkes Booth was a very famous actor at the time. He was the Brad Pitt of his day.