Happy Birthday Linda!

[Linda Anderson]

Laurie, I hadn't seen your birthday wish under the lilac thread. Thank you very much! I'll share some photos soon. I took one from the back of Hildene with lilacs blooming on the side.

Herb, I haven't been to Pullman Island. Did he stay at Castle Rest?

I looked Pullman up. He had quite a life. The following is from the Pullman Museum site. Mrs. Lincoln did not go on the funeral train.

"After President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April, 1865, his body was transported by the so-called “Lonesome Train” to Springfield for burial. From Washington, the funeral train bearing his body started west by slow stages. Across the country, mourners lined the tracks. By the time the cortege reached Chicago, Mrs. Lincoln collapsed. When arrangements had to be made for her return directly to Springfield, Pullman made his new Pioneer sleeper available. Pullman, a genius for public relations and a shrewd and intrepid businessman, so intrigued Andrew Carnegie that he became Pullman’s largest investor."

http://www.pullman-museum.org/theMan/