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Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels
08-07-2014, 12:18 PM
Post: #631
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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.
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08-07-2014, 12:50 PM
Post: #632
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Herndon ?

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08-07-2014, 02:37 PM
Post: #633
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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 ...)
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08-07-2014, 10:33 PM
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I am not surprised that Herndon was drunk when he came up with his recipe for "oyster stew". It sounds disgusting!
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08-08-2014, 10:02 AM
Post: #635
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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.
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08-25-2014, 08:47 PM (This post was last modified: 08-26-2014 01:41 PM by Gene C.)
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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?

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08-25-2014, 08:51 PM
Post: #637
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Gene,

Was it Mary Todd Lincoln?
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08-25-2014, 08:54 PM
Post: #638
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Nice try, but no.

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08-25-2014, 10:10 PM (This post was last modified: 08-25-2014 11:50 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #639
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Edward Bates? Or Judah Benjamin?
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08-25-2014, 11:21 PM
Post: #640
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Were they written by Abraham Lincoln himself?
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08-26-2014, 05:15 AM
Post: #641
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Ulysses S. Grant?
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08-26-2014, 07:43 AM
Post: #642
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Sorry, can't wait any longer now to post the third one that came to my mind - Carl Schurz?
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08-26-2014, 08:07 AM
Post: #643
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Sorry no. I'm heading out the door, the next clue will be in about 2 hours

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08-26-2014, 10:14 AM (This post was last modified: 08-26-2014 02:07 PM by Gene C.)
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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.

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08-26-2014, 06:26 PM
Post: #645
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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?

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