What did Mr. Lincoln enjoy doing?

[Eva Elisabeth]

(06-19-2013 10:25 PM)Troy Cowan Wrote:  Eva said, "Troy, in your first statement you said "he enjoyed fishing". Now it seems to me you say the opposite. And still I would like to know from where you got he wouldn't go near a fishing pole as an adult."

The statement you quote was an opinion, the words were mine. There seems to have been a change in Lincoln's philosophy about hunting and fishing. As a child he went hunting and fishing and gave it up when he became an adult.
Perhaps Lincoln never enjoyed fishing, but took satisfaction in putting food on the table.

I do not like to mow the lawn, but I do like the look of a newly mowed lawn. I will continue to mow the lawn. Do I hate to mow the lawn? No. Do I love to mow the lawn? No. It is something that needs to be done, maybe Lincoln felt that way about fishing.

Ward Lamon commented in is book Life of Lincoln on the subject.
When Abraham was seven-years-old Dennis Hanks led him on numerous fishing trips. p.30
While Lincoln was living in New Salem Lamon said, "Mr. Lincoln hated fishing with all his heart." p.139
To me that means that he would not go near a fishing pole. I could have worded it better.

Thanks, Troy.