Christmas with the Lincoln family in Springfield

[Eva Elisabeth]

(12-13-2013 03:09 PM)L Verge Wrote:  This Southern gal has never put on ice skates and never intends to. Tried roller skates once or twice and decided that, if the good lord had intended for me to roll around on wheels, he would have made me that way. The only wheels I trust are on bikes and cars. Same thoughts about ice skates.

As for the Lincolns, I wonder if board games kept them occupied?

(Ice skating is almost the only good thing in winter...) A. Lincoln did play chess. Tad once kicked the board on the floor when his father was playing chess with Judge Treat instead of coming home for dinner. I think I read the boys, at least Willie and Tad, played chess, too, but right now I can't recall where I read this (if).