Big Blend Radio Interview
On this episode of Big Blend Radio's Author's Show with Books Forward, writer and author J. Lawrence Matthews discusses his new novel, One Must Tell the Bees: Abraham Lincoln and The Final Education of Sherlock Holmes. This evocative tale through time transports Sherlock Holmes to America to meet Lincoln during the Civil War. It begins in 1918 in the English countryside where the world’s greatest detective has retired to tend his bees and write his memoirs — memoirs that reveal the full story of his journey to America, first as a junior chemist at the DuPont gunpowder works in Wilmington, then as a companion for young Tad Lincoln on what turns out to be the evening of President Lincoln’s assassination — and finally as an unsung participant in the electrifying manhunt for the assassin, John Wilkes Booth. It is Holmes’s very first case. But, as One Must Tell the Bees reveals, it is nothing like his final education …
Beachy Head, East Dean
Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters, a series of chalk cliffs, are a stretch of the South Downs Way public walking trail in southeast England. The nearby hamlets of Birling Gap and East Dean provide great information and a place to rest.
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Henry DuPont
Lucas Clawson, Historian of the Hagley Museum, gives a detailed talk on Henry du Pont, President of the DuPont Company during the American Civil War, and his role in keeping the state of Delaware loyal to the Union and in supplying propellants to the U.S. Armed Services.
The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. Much has been written about Booth's motivations: that he was a Confederate sympathizer, or suffering from professional jealousy, or simply wanted attention. Regardless, when Booth left Ford's Theatre that night, he had indelibly changed the course of history, slaying a man now considered one of the nation's greatest presidents. In the weeks, months, and years following the event, the nation grappled with the consequences of Booth's actions. But for Booth himself, the results were much more immediate. In John Wilkes Booth's final days, he ran. He ran for 13 days, from Ford's Theatre all the way to a small farm near Port Royal, VA. The search to find him was one of the biggest manhunts in history, with 10,000 federal troops involved.