Trivia Advent Calendar

[loetar44]

Eva, I really have no clue. Maybe Mary detested no matching socks .... I don't know.

Just read: "Lincoln owned no shoes, only boots (ankle-boots). That was true of lots of men then. Lincoln was wearing his boots the night John Wilkes Booth shot him. William T. Clark, the boarder who had rented the room, found them after Lincoln’s body was removed. He pawned them, using them as collateral for a loan to go West to the gold fields. He never reclaimed them, and they ended up in the hands of a school teacher who brought them to her classroom every year on Lincoln’s birthday for the kids to see, try on and play with. They were finally obtained by the National Park Service. After Lincoln was elected, bootmaker Peter Kahler persuaded the president to let him make another pair of boots. He took the many painstaking measurements and made an ink impression of Lincoln’s foot. Lincoln was buried in Kahler’s boots."