Trivia Advent Calendar

[Eva Elisabeth]

You nailed it, Laurie, Dave and Scott! Behind the window are Abraham Lincoln's goat slippers:
   
...some info on which is on this link Roger once provided: http://m.neatorama.com/2014/07/01/Presid...rs/#!7TRiF

On this special day all guesses and replies shall win. St. Nichoas invites you to a spree on a Xmas market of your choice: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QryIGBjbln8

Before his marriage, A. Lincoln was said having worn rough Conestoga boots even to evening parties in Springfield and once burst into a parlor with the comment “Oh boys, how clean these girls look." I tried to find a picture of such boots to no avail (like cowboy boots perhaps?), just found this:

"Conestoga: 1690s, name of an Indian tribe in southcentral Pennsylvania, probably from some Iroquoian language and sometimes said to mean 'people of the cabin pole;' later a place in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A characteristic type of covered wagon, called Conestoga wagon, was built there from 1750 (about three years before the last of the Conestoga Indians were massacred), but it already was an established term, as the first reference is to the name of a Philadelphia tavern, and probably originally meant the type of wagon farmers used on the road from the city to Conestoga. Also a breed of horses (1824) and a type of boot and cigar."