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RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 08-07-2014 12:18 PM
Thanks for your smart guesses, Roger and tblunk! I'm sorry, it's neither, and I'm sorry to admit I didn't want to make it too easy, and the New Salem days hint was probably a little red herring. The following not, I promise:
Hint #3: Although this person saw A. L. the first time on that occasion, he lived in Springfield, and did so most of his life.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-07-2014 12:50 PM
Herndon ?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 08-07-2014 02:37 PM
Kudos, Gene! It was Herndon's recipe, and actually he was drunk when he created this dish.
Petersburg newspaper editor John Hill recalled (as he told to Ida Tarbell in 1896) witnessing this in a restaurant, and ended: ",...and [Herndon]was about to duplicate, when I persuaded him to go with me to the hotel, and finally put him to bed. This is one of many instances."
Gene, your prize is a dinner à la Herndon (and I consider awarding all guessers as my hints were so distracting ...)
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - LincolnToddFan - 08-07-2014 10:33 PM
I am not surprised that Herndon was drunk when he came up with his recipe for "oyster stew". It sounds disgusting!
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - L Verge - 08-08-2014 10:02 AM
He didn't even come close to making true oyster stew. It's actually quite good if made correctly -- once you get used to what the oysters look like bombing around in the broth.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-25-2014 08:47 PM
In 1978 a packet of personal letters was uncovered that had been hidden for almost a hundred years. What well known person of the Civil War era wrote the letters?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - LincolnToddFan - 08-25-2014 08:51 PM
Gene,
Was it Mary Todd Lincoln?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-25-2014 08:54 PM
Nice try, but no.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 08-25-2014 10:10 PM
Edward Bates? Or Judah Benjamin?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Rogerm - 08-25-2014 11:21 PM
Were they written by Abraham Lincoln himself?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 08-26-2014 05:15 AM
Ulysses S. Grant?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 08-26-2014 07:43 AM
Sorry, can't wait any longer now to post the third one that came to my mind - Carl Schurz?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-26-2014 08:07 AM
Sorry no. I'm heading out the door, the next clue will be in about 2 hours
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-26-2014 10:14 AM
Clue #1.
This packet contained 35 letters written over an eighteen year period, all written to the same person.
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Clue #2
The letters were written between 1864 and 1882. They were recovered from a bank vault.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-26-2014 06:26 PM
Clue # 3
The letters were written to this person's son-in-law, who had been a teller at the First Tennessee Bank in Memphis where the letters were stored. I'd tell you who he is , but then you could look him up on Google, and what fun would that be?