January 2010
9 posts
Oh, What a Different Era!
“A month before the election day, Lincoln received a letter from one Grace Bedell, an 11-year-old girl from Westfield, New York, which urged him to grow a beard because ‘[growing a beard would] look a great deal better for your face is so thin,’ and it would make him more popular. It would prove to be so. When Lincoln left Springfield on February 11th, 1861, bound for the White...
Iowa Backroads, by Roadside Monument.
This is my...
“No boredom can linger where mystery abounds. Everywhere there is wonder: the...”
– Orthodoxy, Oden, p. 92
Another trip down memory lane. This one, circa...
I love hearing old Beatles covers. This one is...
