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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-19-2013 06:20 AM
Isn't that almost the same? (I have always thought it's huckleberry in AE and blueberry in BE?)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 07-19-2013 07:55 AM
I believe the difference (at least when I grew up) is that huckleberries grow wild and are smaller than blueberries, which are cultivated. The roadsides in Southern Maryland were covered with huckleberries when I was a child, and one could stop on the non-shoulders and pick them. Now, thanks to the winter chemicals that are spread in abundance when the first snowflake falls, we have nary a huckleberry and spend outrageous prices for blueberries at the market.
The wild abundance of other berries like strawberries and blackberries growing on their own along roadsides, in old cemeteries, etc. has also largely disappeared. If Booth and Herold had planned their trip through Southern Maryland a few months later, they could have feasted off Mother Nature.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 07-20-2013 05:11 PM
Who is this gentleman?
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Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 07-20-2013 06:39 PM
Wild guess - Patrick Martin?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 07-20-2013 06:52 PM
Sorry Joe. Good guess, but that's not it.
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Rob
First clue:
He was born in 1836 in New York, but is better known as an Illinoisan.
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Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 07-21-2013 07:43 AM
Second clue:
He knew Lincoln, Tarbell and most likely Sandburg.
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Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 07-21-2013 10:26 AM
Third clue:
At one point, Sandburg was his paper boy.
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Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-21-2013 01:12 PM
Clark Ezra Carr?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 07-21-2013 03:24 PM
Can't get one past you Roger. That is Carr. I was also going to have a clue that at one point William McKinley was supposed to have held a cabinet meeting in Carr's home. Good job!
Since I spent all the prize budget for ink and paper (and succeeded in printing out over 350 letters that I forgot I had printed out earlier), there is no prize this time.
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Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-22-2013 09:03 AM
A city in the state of New York was getting ready to greet Abraham Lincoln's inaugural train. To salute the train a cannon was placed next to the tracks. However, it was placed too close to the tracks. The concussion from the cannon fire shattered windows in the first car of the train. The concussion also burst in the door and tore off the lock. Several people were covered with broken glass, but no one was hurt.
Where in New York did this incident take place?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-22-2013 12:30 PM
Hint #1: It's east of Syracuse.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-22-2013 02:54 PM
Hint #1.5: It's east of Utica.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-22-2013 04:00 PM
Since I suppose Albany would be too easy I'll guess Rome.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 07-22-2013 04:01 PM
Albany?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-22-2013 04:03 PM
You are close, Eva and Joe.
Hint #1.75: This city's name ends with a "y."