Our speaker this week will be Ed Lamont
Historian Ed Lamont shares
The Three Wives of Henry Flagler –
BIO – Ed Lamont
Ed is a docent at Whitehall -The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum. Since 1991 he’s led over 2,500 tours at Whitehall; his favorite being Whitehall Holiday Evening Tours each year the week before Christmas. Ed was recognized as the Flagler Museum’s Interpretive Docent of the Year in 2001, 2006 and 2007.
Ed also leads historical tours of the Breakers Hotel, facilitates book discussions at the King Library in Palm Beach, and gives gallery talks at the Society of the Four Arts.
The talk:
Henry Flagler outlived his first wife, divorced his second, and the third buried him. Legends, rumors, and unfortunate truths about each of these ladies abound. Which wife suffered from inattention caused by Flagler’s Standard Oil duties? Who was judged insane and placed in a sanitarium? How did each deal with Flagler’s fortune? Learn from Ed what’s true and what’s made up about – The Three Wives of Henry Flagler,