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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 10-21-2012
(10-21-2012, 01:58 PM)Rob Wick Wrote: Sure thing, Joe, but can I read today's New York Times first?
Best
Rob
Of course, that's what I just finished doing. The first puzzle is a puzzler--the acrostic was easier this week.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 10-21-2012
It takes people much smarter than me to do the puzzles. I stick with the news, although I always like to read the wedding announcements for some odd reason. I guess I like reading about how people who have more money then I ever will think its important to put their nuptials in print like that.
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 10-21-2012
(10-21-2012, 02:11 PM)Rob Wick Wrote: It takes people much smarter than me to do the puzzles. I stick with the news, although I always like to read the wedding announcements for some odd reason. I guess I like reading about how people who have more money then I ever will think its important to put their nuptials in print like that.
Best
Rob
Perhaps they have more money than brains (a saying of one of my late cousins). Not only that, but that section is printed almost on card stock! What's with that. Do we want archaeologists only finding that section of the NYT in the digs of the 25th century?!
Joe
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rsmyth - 10-21-2012
My favorite, favorite section is the book review followed closely by the travel and entertainment section. Of course I read the news too.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 10-21-2012
U. S. Grant was sick and dying. His throat cancer was so bad he couldn't speak anymore-he communicated by writing when others in his presence. To make matters worse, he had lost his wealth-even to the point of selling articles from his military career-swords and such. Someone suggested to him that he should write his memoirs-as a book of such would bring him much needed income (and for his family). Who was that "someone?"
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rogerm - 10-21-2012
That someone was Mark Twain, the eventual publisher of Grant's memoirs.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - rbrugler - 10-22-2012
(07-22-2012, 09:20 AM)RJNorton Wrote: You are correct, Roger. They first met in Cincinnati. It was an 1855 case involving McCormick vs. Manny.
And Mr. Stanton was less than hospitable to Abraham.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 10-22-2012
Great answer! Mark Twain, indeed, was that "someone."
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 10-23-2012
And speaking of U.S. Grant, I am planning on taking a short trip this morning to the former Michigan State Fairgrounds to see if I can get close enough to U.S. Grant's former residence (located on the grounds) to take a picture. Here is a trivia question, in the meantime : U.S. Grant brought a lawsuit against a prominent citizen of Detroit-who later became a leading Radical Republican-who was that defendant?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-23-2012
Zachariah Chandler?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 10-23-2012
Roger: you got it! Grant was stationed in Detroit at Fort Wayne. The lawsuit was over Chandler not having his sidewalk cleared of snow and ice. Grant had taken a fall-and other soldiers had slipped also. Grant won the battle. Interestingly enough, the matter between the two was never brought up again. In fact, Chandler later worked for Grant-while he was President.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 10-23-2012
(10-23-2012, 09:56 AM)LincolnMan Wrote: Roger: you got it! Grant was stationed in Detroit at Fort Wayne. The lawsuit was over Chandler not having his sidewalk cleared of snow and ice. Grant had taken a fall-and other soldiers had slipped also. Grant won the battle. Interestingly enough, the matter between the two was never brought up again. In fact, Chandler later worked for Grant-while he was President.
Bill,
I am reading H.W. Brands "The Man Who Saved the Union", a bio of USG. I highly recommend it; Brands is one of the foremost biographers around.
I am taking guests off to Springfield, IL to show them Lincoln sites, including stuff few if any tourists ever see. Have a great trip to Michigan.
Joe
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 10-23-2012
Joe: I believe that author also covered Andrew Jackson-which I also enjoyed a lot. Thanks for the tip.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 10-23-2012
(10-23-2012, 01:55 PM)LincolnMan Wrote: Joe: I believe that author also covered Andrew Jackson-which I also enjoyed a lot. Thanks for the tip.
His plan is to have 6 bios that also tell something of US history--although published NOT in chronological order the chronology is: Franklin, Jackson, Grant, TR, FDR (all of these have been great) and I am guessing that the 6th will be Nixon--achievements like title IX, environmental initiatives, China, and Nixon's personality disorder + watergate make for a significant bit of history.
Joe
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 10-23-2012
Well, everyone-I made a visit to the U.S. Grant house in Detroit. It sits boarded up on the now defunct Michigan State Fair grounds. It was sad to it the neglect. The public is not allowed inside the grounds so I had to take a couple of pictures from outside the fence at the rear of the house. How sad that this historical legacy is left to crumble. See: http://abesblogcabin.org/a-sad-visit-by-the-u-s-grant-house-in-detroit