Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

Lizzy’s Latest – Shoespiration – Sam Edelman Doran Sandals

Hello, my lovelies!  Lizzy’s Latest is finally back with a new post!  It always seems to take forever these days to finish a post with life pulling me in so many different directions.  Yet, no matter how much time has passed, I return.  I truly appreciate your patience during these long absences from the blog.  I have so much content and not a lot of idle time anymore.  So, I continue to seek that balance that will allow me to post more frequently, like I used to.  (more…)

Lizzy’s Latest – Booth’s Escape Route and Behind the Scenes of the 1993 Gettysburg Movie

Sometimes chance encounters are fated to spark spontaneous adventures.  While photo shooting at a recreated Union encampment at the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum in Southern, Maryland, an unassuming man rode towards us in his ATV.  Dad, my photographer, worried he would kick us off the set.  (more…)

Lizzy’s Latest – Holysouq Collaboration

Back in late April, I received a collaboration request from Holysouq, an online family owned business in Jerusalem specializing in handcrafted leather products such as handbags, leather accessories, and souvenirs.  Camel, their shoe division, specializes in a variety of summer flat sandals for women and men.  Their sandals are handmade by an expert team of crafters using only green materials in their production process. (more…)

The Dr. Mudd House Museum

The Dr. Mudd farmhouse, known as St. Catherine, was an 1857 wedding gift to Dr. Mudd and his wife, Sarah Frances. It is a two story farmhouse on about 218 acres of land. John Wilkes Booth and David Herold banged on the door seen in this pic, bottom right in the early morning hours of April 15, 1865.

The week leading up to Easter in the Spring of 1865 marked a pivotal time in American history.  Confederate General, Robert E. Lee’s hope for a victorious South was dashed with the defeat at Sailor’s Creek on April 6.  This, in part, led to Lee’s sorrowful surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant three days later at Appomattox Court House in rural Virginia.  Though other battles persisted for a few more months, this act effectively ended the American Civil War.             (more…)