Trivia Advent Calendar

[J. Beckert]

Leave it to the former school teacher to be a stickler for the details! I asked what and where and you've nailed them both. Nice try, Thomas, but you didn't go quite far enough.

Notoriously thrifty, RTL brought furniture he'd put in storage from the Lincoln home in Springfield after he'd completed construction on Hildene. This piece is believed to have been in Lincoln's home. And it is in the upstairs parlor. And I did touch it.

Another example of his thrift is in the actual construction. The architect stipulated the library be trimmed with mahogany, but RTL used local poplar, treated with a mahogany stain.

To be fair, I will transfer the point I got yesterday to Thomas and Laurie gets the point for this one. Looks like a 3 way tie so far.

Laurie 2
Roger 2
Thomas 2

Now here's the evil deed....