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L Verge · 12-03-2015, 08:22 PM

(12-03-2015 07:10 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:
(11-30-2015 09:41 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:
(11-29-2015 04:50 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:
(11-29-2015 04:11 PM)LincolnMan Wrote: Would love to go there someday- having never been. I assume there are many relics there? Really the while whole is probably a relic!
Yes - you sure won't regret it. The original couch where Booth sat to get his leg dressed, and a lot of others (the rest being contemporarly furnished). Authentic, very atmospherical. Breathing views from the window of the room where Booth and Harold slept. And due to it being such a secluded, idyllic place you can feel the original time and can imagine the happenings. The idyllic atmosphere has something threatening to it (like in "High Noon") and you almost expect desperados to appear on horseback.

Eva:
I love how you paint the feel of being there with a High Noon quality. Being a big fan ofvthat movie I instantly get it!
I love the movie, too - IMO the modern ones despite all the technical tricks don't come up to the charming atmosphere of the old ones (same in music).

And IMO there are no actresses anymore with the aura of a Grace Kelly, MM, or Claudia Cardinale. (Did you know she is Tunisian btw?). The same goes for actors.

Bill, I posted one relict - a dresser made by Spangler (as I was told, or Mudd according to Laurie - and she has the greater knowledge) on the trivia thread here:
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...l#pid54106
...and the sofa where Booth sat here:
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...l#pid47237
This is if I remember not the original bed where JWB and Herold slept at the Mudds', but similar and in the same place:

...And this is what they could see from the bedroom window:

(and imagine it was deadly quiet outside).

Forgot: The Mudds' bedroom, and the clothes were allegedly original theirs.

I suspect that the bedroom furniture belonged to the Mudds after the Civil War. That style is more reminiscent of the 1870s. For those of you who have not visited, their bedroom was supposedly a small room off of the downstairs dining room. I have questioned why, since their four children (in 1865) were housed in one room upstairs. I would think that Mrs. Mudd would want to be closer to her children if one got sick or fretful during the night.

Perhaps they had a live-in nanny? But where was the nanny's room? Did she get rousted out of the front bedroom (which is normally the master bedroom) when Booth and Herold arrived? Did she share the children's bedroom with them? The only other room upstairs was supposedly Dr. Mudd's medical office. Was there a connecting door through the children's room to a room that was over today's gift shop?

So many bodies and so few bedrooms! What on earth did they do after the war when Dr. and Mrs. Mudd produced five more children?