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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-24-2018
(08-24-2018, 10:02 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: but then again money can't pay most of the best things in life...)
Well said!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 08-24-2018
Let's try this question: A piece of Lincoln's tomb was removed and sent for use in another Civil War memorial. Where?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-24-2018
Gettysburg?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 08-24-2018
(08-24-2018, 01:45 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Gettysburg?
That would certainly be the logical guess considering how many memorials are in Gettysburg, but this one is more obscure.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-24-2018
I am assuming the piece stayed in Illinois. Having lived in the Chicago area for 51 years I sure remember Grant Park, named after Ulysses S. Grant. In the park there is a statue of Civil War General John A. Logan. So I will guess the Logan statue in Grant Park.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 08-24-2018
(08-24-2018, 03:02 PM)RJNorton Wrote: I am assuming the piece stayed in Illinois. Having lived in the Chicago area for 51 years I sure remember Grant Park, named after Ulysses S. Grant. In the park there is a statue of Civil War General John A. Logan. So I will guess the Logan statue in Grant Park.
Sorry, but the piece is the only one known to have left the State of Illinois. Think about the times that work was done on the Lincoln Tomb.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 08-24-2018
Wild guess - the Scottish-American Soldiers Monument in Edinburgh? (Usually such items make a good gift abroad.)
If not abroad I'd think this "must" have gone to the capital (DC). Did it?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 08-24-2018
(08-24-2018, 04:35 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Wild guess - the Scottish-American Soldiers Monument in Edinburgh? (Usually such items make a good gift abroad.)
If not abroad I'd think this "must" have gone to the capital (DC). Did it?
Nope to both guesses, Eva. The piece remains in the U.S. and several hours' drive from the nation's capital. It has also been engraved so that the public can distinguish it from the rest of the memorial (if they keep flowers and grass trimmed away because it is at the base of the memorial).
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-25-2018
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch in Brooklyn?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 08-25-2018
(08-25-2018, 04:59 AM)RJNorton Wrote: The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch in Brooklyn?
It is part of a Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, but not this one. Move a little south and west to another Yankee state.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 08-25-2018
That one?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers%27_and_Sailors%27_Monument_(Indianapolis)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 08-25-2018
The Mifflin County Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument in the town of Lewistown in the great state of Pennsylvania.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 08-25-2018
Well, Laurie, I didn't think that little, little south of -
Brooklyn latitude 40.650002
Lewistown Pennsylvania latitude: 40.606915
(assuming Steve is correct).
1° latitude is 111.2 km, hence the difference of 0,043087° is 4,8 km = 2 Miles...(without considering if the PA monument possibly is located in the north of Lewistown and the other in the south of Brooklyn...not saying I object the hint...)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 08-25-2018
(08-25-2018, 04:51 PM)Steve Wrote: The Mifflin County Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument in the town of Lewistown in the great state of Pennsylvania.
Excellent reply and a correct one, Steve. The monument was dedicated in 1906 and stands 64-feet high on the town square of Lewistown, PA. We can thank the boyhood friendship between George Frysinger, then editor of the town's Gazette, and Major Robert Hoover, who was then in charge of the Lincoln Memorial Foundation. At that time, the Lincoln Tomb was being remodeled, and Frysinger contacted Hoover with a request for a piece of the Tomb. The town received a 14- by 24-inch block to honor the citizens of Lewistown who were among the very first to heed the call for volunteers issued by President Lincoln.
No one can see, but behind that block is a glass jar containing the names of all of Mifflin County's Civil War veterans, their respective military records, a GAR button and badge, U.S. coinage from the CW years, and an 1895 medal commemorating the centennial of Lewistown.
For more info and photos, go here https://www.lewistownsquare.com/square.html
(08-25-2018, 05:15 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Well, Laurie, I didn't think that little, little south of -
Brooklyn latitude 40.650002
Lewistown Pennsylvania latitude: 40.606915
(assuming Steve is correct).
1° latitude is 111.2 km, hence the difference of 0,043087° is 4,8 km = 2 Miles...(without considering if the PA monument possibly is located in the north of Lewistown and the other in the south of Brooklyn...not saying I object the hint...)
Eva - Not sure what I'm apologizing for, but I gave that hint off the top of my head, just visualizing a map of the NY/PA area and specifically the area around Harrisburg, the capital of PA. Unless I'm being quizzed, I am not a GPS person. Sorry if I caused you to miss the question.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 08-25-2018
Who's this ?