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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 10-23-2020 07:57 AM

Roger and Mike,

Sorry gentlemen, but neither is correct..

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Rob


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 10-23-2020 08:32 AM

Was there a certain country she wanted to visit, but it never took place?


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 10-23-2020 09:46 AM

Sorry Roger, but that's not it.

First clue: It has nothing to do with Lincoln.

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Rob


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 10-23-2020 03:01 PM

Does it involve meeting someone whom she never could?


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 10-23-2020 03:16 PM

Sorry Roger, but it doesn't.

Next clue: It would eventually happen, but longer after Tarbell's death.

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Rob


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Gene C - 10-23-2020 03:28 PM

I was going to guess marriage and a family, but I can see that's wrong. - Confused

so let's try, have someone (relative) named after her,
or a building at a school named after her.


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 10-23-2020 03:59 PM

Good guesses Gene, but neither is correct. Actually, there was a woman's dorm named after Tarbell at Allegheny College while she was still living. However, she refused to let the college name the library room with her Lincoln collection after her.

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Rob


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 10-23-2020 04:23 PM

Does it have to do with another writer?


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 10-23-2020 05:24 PM

There is another writer involved, yes.

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Rob


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 10-24-2020 04:49 AM

Maybe Carl Sandburg won an award that she was only granted posthumously?


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 10-24-2020 09:11 AM

Roger, that's a perfectly reasonable guess, but not correct.

Next clue: This helps to explain why Tarbell's papers are in two different archives.

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Rob


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 10-24-2020 07:18 PM

Next clue: Part of the reason Tarbell was unable to accomplish this was her fear of it "getting musty."

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Rob


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Susan Higginbotham - 10-24-2020 08:50 PM

Publish a biography of a certain person?


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 10-24-2020 10:21 PM

That's a good guess Susan, but that isn't it.

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Rob


RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 10-25-2020 01:04 PM

Guess it's time for another clue.

Tarbell talked about this in 1921 with none other than S.S. McClure, but nothing ever came of it.

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Rob