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RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 08-03-2015 06:04 PM

May I ask that it be an abstract sculpture so that no one recognizes me?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-03-2015 06:11 PM

You are allowed requests, but the Friends of Fred Smith make the final decision.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-29-2015 07:35 AM

What is the connection between Tad Lincoln and something called the Holiday Budget?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Houmes - 08-29-2015 11:04 AM

(08-29-2015 07:35 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  What is the connection between Tad Lincoln and something called the Holiday Budget?

I believe this was a school newspaper he either edited or produced. He attended the Brown School in Chicago, which was a refuge just outside the perimeter of the Great Chicago Fire in 1871.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 08-29-2015 11:35 AM

I believe this is correct, and there was only one issue published.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-29-2015 01:39 PM

Kudos, Blaine and Eva. You are both correct. Tad was co-editor along with another lad named Sterling P. Rounds, Jr. I believe the Chicago History Museum has a copy.

You both win free lifetime subscriptions to the Brown School Holiday Budget.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 08-29-2015 04:49 PM

What relic of Tad's did Mrs. Keckley say she owned?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-29-2015 05:18 PM

Tad's soldier doll named Jack who was pardoned by President Lincoln?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 08-29-2015 05:26 PM

Roger, that would be really special but it's not the one Keckley owned. Here's a hint. It's an object that didn't belong to Tad but Tad used to assist his father.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 08-29-2015 09:19 PM

An inkwell?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 08-30-2015 11:44 AM

Good guess Eva but it's not an inkwell. One last hint. This object was used the Tuesday night after the fall of Richmond.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 08-30-2015 12:04 PM

Although Noah Brooks claimed he held the lamp to provide light at Lincoln's April 11 speech, I believe I also read Tad did. This lamp perhaps?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 08-30-2015 01:41 PM

I think Eva's right. Somehow I remember reading about this when the Surratt Society was raising money to mark Mrs. Keckly's grave.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Jim Page - 08-30-2015 01:47 PM

I don't think Tad held the lamp; I think he picked up the sheets of paper his father dropped as he gave his speech.

--Jim


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-30-2015 02:08 PM

As I recall there was a conflict of opinion on this. Noah Brooks said he held the light as Tad picked up the pages from the speech as his father dropped them; Mrs. Keckly said Tad held the light. I thought it was a candle.