Richland Library Southeast
Allan Pinkerton and His Agency
Sunday, November 10, 2019 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Travel back in time with America's pioneer 'private eye'!
Discover how a fugitive from the law in his native Scotland became America’s pioneer ‘private eye’!
To mark the Bicentennial Year of the birth of "America's Detective," Allan Pinkerton recalls his varied and adventurous life, from his impoverished Scottish childhood, through his brush with British law as a Chartist radical, plus his escape to America and his activities in support of John Brown and setting up his detective agency in Chicago, saving President-Elect Lincoln, his Civil War service, his pursuit of Jesse James and the Molly Maguires, and more.
Howard Burnham’s acclaimed self-researched and written one-man shows--costumed dramatic monologues / lectures-in-character with PowerPoint--have played throughout the U.S., England, and on the BBC. In 1972, Burnham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and he is a SC Arts Commission-approved artist.