Looking for Lincoln

[Eva Elisabeth]

...in Illinois:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0809333821...pringfield

Looks interesting:
https://books.google.de/books?id=TcaBBgA...CCAQ6AEwBQ

If anyone has, read, or thumbed through it, please share!!! Is it worth buying?

[RJNorton]

Eva, I have this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Lincoln-Il...1_1&sr=8-1

That was the source I used for the "Love is Eternal" engraver trivia question. I like the book. However, when I mentioned this in an email to Joe Di Cola last week Joe mentioned that he felt this one was better:

http://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Springfie...1626199515

So now I have an order in for that one! I am going broke!

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thank you so much, Roger - oh my, which one shall I choose now???

(06-23-2015 08:37 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  I am going broke!

...same here!!!

[RJNorton]

(06-23-2015 08:51 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  which one shall I choose...???

This is a bit of a stretch(?), but that phrase reminds me of a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH-AafkQPEo

[Gene C]

If you have to choose between the two, I would trust Joe's judgement on this. It is a larger (more pages) book. But since Amazon offers a sample of both books including the index it will be easier to compare which one has what your looking for.

I have purchased several books just because Joe recommended them and I haven't been disappointed.
(I haven't read either of these yet)

[STS Lincolnite]

(06-23-2015 08:37 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Eva, I have this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Lincoln-Il...1_1&sr=8-1

That was the source I used for the "Love is Eternal" engraver trivia question. I like the book. However, when I mentioned this in an email to Joe Di Cola last week Joe mentioned that he felt this one was better:

http://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Springfie...1626199515

So now I have an order in for that one! I am going broke!

I have Looking for Lincoln and I really like it. I used it as a quick little travel guide on my visit to Springfield in May. It is concise but informative - easy to carry. While on that trip, I paged through Lincoln's Springfield neighborhood. It looked to be a lot more detailed and thorough. I don't have it yet but it is on my to buy list (will try to get and read before the October Lincoln trip with Joe and Gene - I hope to make it this year!!). I think both would be great, just depending on what type of book you are looking for.

[Gene C]

How does "Looking for Lincoln" and "Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood" compare to
"Here I have Lived" by Paul Angle?

[RJNorton]

Gene, I hope this makes sense - it applies to me regarding your question. I often will sit in the living room watching TV and reading (or trying to) read a book at the same time. I believe I could successfully do both with "Looking for Lincoln" and "Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood." With Angle's book, however, I'd have to pick one or the other - either turn the TV off or leave the TV on and put the book away.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thanks, Roger, for your comment. My question is how "Looking for Lincoln" and "Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood" compare to each other. Since my kitty anyway prefers the TV to stay off, my focus is on which book has the most or most unique/interesting information, form which could I learn the most that I would perhaps also not find elsewhere. Which one would you recommend in this regard?

[RJNorton]

(07-12-2015 08:41 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  my focus is on which book has the most or most unique/interesting information, form which could I learn the most that I would perhaps also not find elsewhere.

Hi Eva. I would give the nod to Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood. Rather than looking at Springfield as a whole (as the other does) this book concentrates on the Lincolns' immediate neighbors. It has lots of photos and information that I have not seen in other books I have (such as a photo of Robert's teacher, Abel Estabrook).

It even has a section on Germans who were living in the neighborhood. In 1860 19 families with a German head-of-household lived within a 3 block radius of the Lincolns.

There is also an account of the one German servant who lived briefly in the Lincoln home. His name was John G. Weilein who was born in Bavaria, Germany, on September 27, 1841. He worked for the Lincolns in 1859. He did odd jobs around the house, fed the stock, milked the cows, chopped wood, and looked after the garden. I should add that this is Weilein's story, and the author of the book notes that "some have doubted his story of service to the Lincolns."

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thank you, Roger - you have convinced I must have this one...most likely I'll end up with both, but "Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood" comes first.