"Stump the Yankee"

[Rob Wick]

Sorry, Laurie, but when I started to google "Lincoln" and "pickpocket" it came up "Lincoln pick up lines." I think I'm going to go visit Ida Tarbell.

Best
Rob

[J. Beckert]

This is going great so far.......I love this!!

[Gene C]

Sorry, Laurie, but when I started to google "Lincoln" and "pickpocket" it came up "Lincoln pick up lines."

I always wondered how a homely looking Abraham Lincoln was able to attract a rich, attractive, socialite like Mary Todd. He had a great "pick up line". Thanks Rob for another tidbit of history.

[L Verge]

Harold Holzer, where are you??

If we every figure out the pickpocket clue, I would love to see some of those Lincoln pick up lines!

[Gene C]

Let's try try crazy relatives for $1.00, Joe

Who is Dennis Hanks? (cousin)

[J. Beckert]

HEY LAURIE!! Is that guy a member here? If he is, I'm done!!

Hint # 1 - The answer is in a book Mr. Holzer wrote.

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Gene - we posted at the same time. Congratulations on what was an embarrassingly short installment for the Yankee! After several failed attempts, you have succeeded at stumping the Yankee! Kudos!

Send me a PM or an e-mail with your address and I will send out this neat piece of history ASAP. Thanks again to Betty!

Here's the link to Mr. Holzer's book - "Dear Mr. Lincoln - Letters to the President."

http://books.google.com/books?id=tA4lXY3...ig=Mawgo#v

[Craig Hipkins]

I guess that I am too late! Oh well, I wouldn't have gotten it right anyway.

Craig

[J. Beckert]

I would have appreciated one more wrong answer, Craig. Even if it was from a Yankee! Tough crowd to stump here!

[L Verge]

I love you Gene from Kentucky - we Border State people have to stick together.

[J. Beckert]

Rub it in, why don't ya................

[J. Beckert]

Tally up 'til now
Rebs 2
Yankee 1

Good afternoon and welcome back to what I hope will be a score evening installment of "Stump the Yankee". I'm behind and not liking it one bit. It might be time for some "blamed Yankee tricks" as Powell would say. Let's get started.

Booth travelled a great deal. A lot of his travels are well documented. Some are not. Such is the case with a supposed trip overseas Booth made with Edwin between 1863 and 1864. Very little is known about this trip. The crossing alone in those days took about 23 days. It was most likely made during the theater off season, during the summer months. Very little is written about this trip. The question is then - How the heck do we even know it may have happened?

Today's prize? Depending on how long this drags out, either of copy of a 1926 Time magazine with RTL on the cover or a very pristine playbill from a performance of Edwin Booth at the Boston Museum in 1863. Good luck my Secessionist friends.

[L Verge]

This is where we need to kidnap Art Loux from Kansas, pray that he's a Copperhead, and force an answer out of him! Art is the author of the one-of-a-kind book (very rare) entitled John Wilkes Booth Day by Day.

Any other "Southruns" have a copy of Nora Titone's book handy to see what she has to say? My copy is at work.

[J. Beckert]

I don't think Ms. Titone's book will help you, Laurie. "Shout Outs" to your unreconstructed Rebel friends are encouraged, but I think this may be a Yankee victory! Y'all come back now and try again, ya hear?

[J. Beckert]

Hmmmm.... I don't hear anyone singing "The Bonnie Blue Flag" yet, so that can only mean it's time for...
Hint # 1 - This trip was only referenced by 3 people. 2 were foreigners who saw them and one was an actress both Booth's had performed with.

[Bill Richter]

According to F Lauriston Bullard in 2 articles in Lincoln Herald, volumes 50 and 52, June 1948 and Oct 1950, pp 28-34, 41-43, respectfully, Booth made a trip to Paris.