Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Whats in your pocket?





The blurry image is the only known image of Lincoln at Gettysburg!

Thanks to the Library of Congress for the image. {update:recently there is to have been a second photo found}

These images are of James Getty, Gettysburg's Renown Abe Lincoln Impressionist jimgetty.com/


On the night Abe Lincoln passed to his reward April 14, 1865.. the items found in his pockets were a curious lot. Got any idea what the items were? The why is the mysterious part of the items. Stay tuned, read the next entry and you will find out the anwser.

Till next post adios from Dick Bloom. Check out my website dickbloom.com

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is, curiosity."
Burke

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