Where Is It?
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11-04-2019, 09:19 PM
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RE: Where Is It?
(11-04-2019 05:46 PM)RJNorton Wrote: THANK YOU for all your efforts, Rob!! The article says that Ninian Edwards lived until 1899. Does anyone know if he remained in that home until his death? Also, I don't see any electric poles in the photo. P.S. Rob, thanks so much for taking the time to search your files. |
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11-05-2019, 04:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-05-2019 04:08 AM by Steve.)
Post: #77
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RE: Where Is It?
Rob,
Thanks for looking through your copies of the Barton papers. Very interesting. I'm fascinated by Barton's description of A Beautiful Blunder being more unimportant than Lincoln's Women. I had to wait several years to buy an old copy of Blunder for under $30 last year, but I was just able to order a copy of Women for under $6. I know cost doesn't necessarily equal value, but I wonder what Barton would've thought if he knew what the marketplace values copies of those books would fetch nearly a century later? |
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11-05-2019, 01:18 PM
Post: #78
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Steve,
When I first read that I thought maybe Barton made a typographical error and meant important. But as I read the remainder of what he wrote, that wouldn't make sense. I think Barton wanted to be known as the best living biographer of Lincoln over and above Beveridge, Sandburg, and Tarbell, and looked at other books as not as vital to that goal as his two-volume biography was. I think that partly explains why the files that deal with the biography are almost four inches thick and the others are much smaller. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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11-11-2019, 09:10 PM
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11-12-2019, 05:45 AM
Post: #80
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RE: Where Is It?
Is it in a state east of the Mississippi River?
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11-12-2019, 06:53 AM
Post: #81
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RE: Where Is It?
Yes, Roger!
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11-12-2019, 07:55 AM
Post: #82
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Thanks Rick for the photo. What dedication
That must have hurt when you got your hand stuck in the door like that. So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in? |
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11-12-2019, 07:59 AM
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RE: Where Is It?
Is the answer Lincoln-related?
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11-12-2019, 08:40 AM
Post: #84
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Yes, it is very Lincoln - related, Roger!
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11-12-2019, 10:32 AM
Post: #85
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Would the building where Rick is pictured be within 100 miles of where Lincoln tricked Forbes into eating the green fruit from the persimmon tree? (in other words within 100 miles of the road to the Soldiers' Home)
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11-12-2019, 12:51 PM
Post: #86
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RE: Where Is It?
I'm keeping quiet, but I think I know where he is. I just want to know how he got on that property (if I'm right).
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11-12-2019, 08:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-12-2019 08:39 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #87
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RE: Where Is It?
Roger, Google Maps says the place is 135 miles from Soldiers Home. Laurie, please feel free to "place your guess"! (The place is open to the public AFAIK!)
Shall I give a hint? Well, if you change a single letter (and capitalize another) in my into sentence (post #79) that will make a hint! |
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11-12-2019, 08:58 PM
Post: #88
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RE: Where Is It?
My guess would have been the purported slave cabin at the Hughes' Indiantown Farm in Charles County, Maryland, where Booth and Herold supposedly took shelter after the Potomac tides forced them into Nanjemoy Creek.
P.S. I don't believe that that slave quarter still exists. I think that the one that Mike Kauffman photographed was actually a later tenant farmer's house on the farm. With your hints, however, I think I'm wrong. Indiantown is a far piece from the Soldiers' Home, however, but not sure as far as 135 miles. And it certainly is not open to the public. It would have been a stop on our Booth Tours years ago if it were. |
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11-12-2019, 09:38 PM
Post: #89
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RE: Where Is It?
Very logical, Laurie - my initial thinking as for the place was similar (escape route + slave accommodation...) but this is an essential Lincoln question (not assassination related).
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11-13-2019, 05:54 AM
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RE: Where Is It?
That mileage made me think of trips Lincoln took from the White House. City Point immediately came to mind, and my research shows it's approximately the same mileage as what you said. Thus, I will guess Rick's hand is stuck in the door of Ulysses S. Grant's cabin at City Point. Grant met with Abraham Lincoln (and others) in this cabin. I second Gene in hoping Rick's hand has healed.
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