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RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 09-22-2023 04:02 PM
Sorry Steve, but it isn't Onstott.
Clue: Another of Lincoln's contemporaries referred to him as an "egotistical fool."
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 09-23-2023 01:24 PM
His last name is not pronounced as it is spelled.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 09-23-2023 06:27 PM
Well, I guess I'll go ahead and call this. The letter writer was none other than Ward Hill Lamon, who was trying to get a picture of Herndon for Lamon's biography of Lincoln.
I'm not sure about the idea that before 1870, Herndon never had a picture taken. Doing some research, it shows only five known poses, but I'm not sure as to their dates. At least one looks like a younger Herndon.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-10-2024 10:33 AM
No Googling, please.
Read this quote from Sandburg:
I am a child of time. I celebrate the dignity, importance and pathos of time. Time used me with snow and rain, wind and frost, rust and rot, till I was falling away. Unless loving and thoughtful hands had come to help me I would have prepared to vanish and become dust in the wind, a shattered form and a forgotten melody, a house melted into thin shadows.
Sandburg uses the word "house" here, but he was not talking about a house. What building was he speaking of?
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - STS Lincolnite - 04-10-2024 10:58 AM
(04-10-2024 10:33 AM)Rob Wick Wrote: No Googling, please.
Read this quote from Sandburg:
I am a child of time. I celebrate the dignity, importance and pathos of time. Time used me with snow and rain, wind and frost, rust and rot, till I was falling away. Unless loving and thoughtful hands had come to help me I would have prepared to vanish and become dust in the wind, a shattered form and a forgotten melody, a house melted into thin shadows.
Sandburg uses the word "house" here, but he was not talking about a house. What building was he speaking of?
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Rob
Wild guess here Rob. How about where Lincoln delivered the "House Divided" speech. The Old State Capitol in Springfield, IL.
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-10-2024 11:11 AM
That is an excellent and logical guess, Scott, but it isn't the Old State Capitol. However, I will say it is in Illinois.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Gene C - 04-10-2024 11:29 AM
A church?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-10-2024 12:12 PM
Gene,
It isn't a church.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - RJNorton - 04-10-2024 01:12 PM
Major's Hall?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-10-2024 01:55 PM
Another logical guess, Roger, but that isn't it.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Steve - 04-11-2024 03:25 AM
The imagery of Sandburg's poetic words keeps bringing up in my mind New Salem and the effort to reconstruct it. But if it has to be a specific building, maybe Rutledge Tavern?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-11-2024 08:51 AM
Good try, Steve, but that isn't it.
This building is important to both Sandburg and Lincoln.
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Rob
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Gene C - 04-11-2024 09:50 AM
A school ?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - RJNorton - 04-11-2024 12:57 PM
Old Main?
RE: A Sandburg Stumper - Rob Wick - 04-11-2024 01:15 PM
Gene,
You were on the right track, but Roger got it. It's Old Main at Knox College in Galesburg.
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Rob