Extra Credit Questions

[Joe Di Cola]

OMG, really ugly - but I do like the table it's sitting on. The chair looks dangerous to me. A friend's family once owned a beautiful ca. 1780 home in Clinton. The father envisioned himself another Lyndon Johnson in his love of all things Texan - even though he lived all of his life in Maryland.

The house is unique in that one wing of it was a Catholic chapel with an adjoining bedroom for visiting priests in the early days of our country. The bedroom had a predo (I think that's what you call the kneeling desk used by priests?) at the foot of the bed, but in a far corner was a horn chair that was almost as ugly as this Kinman one. Even assuming that a priest gets special protection from above, it would not have been me that wanted to sleep in that room with that chair.

Laurie,

You are right--Pre Dieu is correct--it is any kneeler with a ledge to rest ones arm and or a prayer book.

Joe

[RJNorton]

Where was Abraham Lincoln when he wondered, "Where in the world does all that water come from?"

[LincolnMan]

Niagra Falls! (I can hear the Three Stooges saying: "Slowly I turn, step by step...").

[RJNorton]

Good morning, Bill, and you are correct! Kudos.

[LincolnMan]

As I seem to recall, as Lincoln stood by the Falls, he was trying to determine its age-or something like that!

[RJNorton]

What is the westernmost city Abraham Lincoln ever visited during his life?

[Rogerm]

Did he once visit Lawrence, Kansas?

[LincolnMan]

I would agree with Rogerm's guess that it was Kansas. I don't know what city. It seems to me Lincoln was addressing the slavery issue.

[RJNorton]

Good morning Roger and Bill. Close enough. The book I am using says he visited five cities in Kansas...Atchison, Doniphan, Elwood, Leavenworth, and Troy. Looking at a map, it looks like Atchison is the westernmost. The book does not list Lincoln as going to Lawrence, Kansas, but if the book is wrong, then I stand corrected on that.

You both win free visits to the two parcels of land Lincoln owned in Iowa.

[RJNorton]

There is only one known photo with both Tad and Robert Lincoln in it. Where was it taken?

[Mark MacKenzie]

Is it in front of the Springfield house with Tad on the fence?

[RJNorton]

Wow, Mark, I had not thought of that photo when I wrote the question. If it's the one I think you mean, I know Willie and Tad are identified as being there, but is Robert pictured, too? I thought just Willie and Tad...but offhand, I am not sure. Maybe someone will know definitely if Robert is there, too.

Anyway, the photo I am thinking of is a more recent discovery. And Mary Lincoln is usually identified as being in the photo, too.

[Mark MacKenzie]

I was wrong. It is Willie. There is another child in the photo but of Isaac Diller, a neighborhood playmate.

[J. Beckert]

Outdoors by a waterfall or some natural site. Mary's in it too, I believe.

I've seen the photo, but I couldn't remember the particulars, so I cheated. They are at "The Flume" in Fraconia Notch, N.H. (I 'll forfeit my prize)

[RJNorton]

You win, Joe. Kudos.

Photo is here.

I hesitated a little on Mary as the Lincoln Family Album says, "Mrs. Lincoln is probably standing somewhere in the group, and Tad can be seen squeezing into the crowd at the center. Robert stands far off to the left." My aging eyes see a woman I think is Mary in the center next to Tad. The photo is from "The Flume" at Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1863 (several weeks after Mary's carriage accident).

You win one free meal at Mrs. Scott's boardinghouse.