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Re: [OM] Lincoln's Bicentennial Anniversary

Subject: Re: [OM] Lincoln's Bicentennial Anniversary
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:26:54 -0500
Nice series.  I've never seen that stature before.  You did it justice.

Chuck Norcutt

Joel Wilcox wrote:
> Somewhere in the world it's Feb 12, 2009 by now, so I hope it is not
> jumping the gun to post a few photos:
> 
> http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003625&id=1261510733&l=65d76
> 
> Three are photos I shot in 2005 with the C8080 of a statue of Lincoln
> and his son, Tad.  The statue is located on the Iowa state capitol
> grounds in Des Moines, Iowa, and is apparently the only statue of
> Lincoln and any one of his three sons.  Lincoln lost his son, Willie,
> in early 1862, and all Washington mourned with the first family when
> Willie died.  There's a good story about Tad.  He apparently had a pet
> turkey who roamed at will and was out among some Pennsylvania soldiers
> who were quartered on the White House grounds.  It was election time
> (1864) and the soldiers were voting by absentee ballot.  This was
> crucial to Lincoln, who counted on much support from the soldiers
> through absentee voting.  As Tad and Lincoln watched the soldiers
> voting from one of the windows, Lincoln asked Tad if the turkey,
> wandering among the troops, intended to vote too.  "No," said Tad,
> "he's not of age."  It was noted by an observer at the time (Noah
> Brooks) that Lincoln so dearly loved the boy that "for days thereafter
> he took pride in relating this anecdote ."
> 
> I also included my two favorite photos by Alexander Gardner, which
> were taken within a couple of months, and possibly -- in the case of
> the broken-glass photo -- within days, of his death.  He surely bore
> the sorrows of a nation.
> 
> Joel W.
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