The Franklin Public Library will be hosting a series of seminars covering a vast array of topics by fellow community members. Please join Margo Mong at the Franklin Public Library Thursday April 27th, from 6-7 to discuss A Night at the Theater: John Wilkes Booth & Laura Keene in the Oil Region.

This is a free event and open to all ages.

In 1864, Booth was one of many oil speculators living in Franklin. In 1865 Laura Keene, an actress at Ford’s Theater the night Booth assassinated Lincoln, cradled the bloody head of the dying president in her lap. In 1873, she toured the Oil Region with “the bloody dress” and gave the final performance of her life at Tidioute. Join Margo Mong as she walks us through the time Wilkes and Keene spent in the Oil Region.