They frown on people horsing around there.Nice. How do they keep people from mounting up? I confess, I’d be tempted!
I guess the mud-balls trick on the bricks is a frowner.They frown on people horsing around there.
They've got a few Berdan's Sharpshooters hidden in trees and window.....aw go on that's funny. It's probably like the statue of Will Rogers at his home. People are going to polish his boots for luck. Now I'd like to slip some habanero hot sauce on the Blarney Stone and if you'll come with me here's what we'll do. I've already got a bottle of the stuff and.......Nice. How do they keep people from mounting up? I confess, I’d be tempted!
I have read that this was were he went to be away from Mary ? Did he come here just for solitude ? No press, no crowds and to be able to able to do this without any concern of danger, just an ordinary citizen out for a ride. This truly was a different time!View attachment 390095
This statue of Lincoln with his horse is located on the grounds of what was then the wartime Soldiers' Home in D.C. where he spent the summers away from the White House and where he supposedly penned the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862:
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Let's hope that it won't be defaced or toppled. But all the logic and laws cannot prevent "stupid"After several weeks off, thought I would add a couple of photos in celebration
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Scarcely - he brought both Mary and Tad with him and commuted daily back to the White House. Once while enroute someone took a potshot at him and actually put a hole through his stovepipe hat! After that he was always accompanied by a detail of cavalrymen.I have read that this was were he went to be away from Mary ? Did he come here just for solitude ? No press, no crowds and to be able to able to do this without any concern of danger, just an ordinary citizen out for a ride. This truly was a different time!
The best semi-professional I know is (or at least was, since this was a number of years ago) James Getty who for many years had his own one-man show in a small theater at Gettysburg on Steinwehr Avenue near all the other attractions like the Lincoln Train. His knowledge of Lincoln was truly amazing - after talking for an hour or hour and a half as Lincoln he opened the program up for questions from the audience and had no trouble at all answering them "off the cuff." He also portrayed Lincoln in the Turner made-for-TV potboiler Ironclads. Getty's performance, which I attended ca. 1987 following the Antietam 125th anniversary reenactment, was very much in the style of Daniel Day-Lewis's folksy interpretation in the Spielberg movie.I noticed the Lincoln impersonator. What sight or performer did the best at portraying Lincoln? I remember seeing the PBS Special MR. LINCOLN: A PLAY IN TWO ACTS. The actor was a bit short and he didn't have the Kentucky "twang". His voice didn't get higher pitched when the character was excited. But it was still entertaining.