Top Tips for Exploring Lincoln's Home and Tomb in Springfield, Illinois

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<p>Dave did you say Abe Lincoln?</p>
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<p>some reason that always pops in hilarious I don't know what it is,</p>
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<p>but that just lodged its way into my brain, and as they say, it lives there.</p>
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<p>Rent So whenever we talk, whenever they talk about Abe Lincoln, I, for some</p>
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<p>reason, I think of that scene in Robin Hood You can tell I'm not a historian.</p>
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<p>Welcome to Talk With History.</p>
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<p>I am your host Scott, here with my wife and historian Jen.</p>
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<p>Hello.</p>
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<p>Now, Jenn, before we get into it, I don't think I told you this before, I may have</p>
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<p>mentioned it, but we got a good comment on Spotify on one of our older episodes,</p>
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<p>and it's a pretty popular download.</p>
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<p>It was our episode on called Top Tips for Visiting Colonial Williamsburg,</p>
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<p>Oh, cool.</p>
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<p>where we kind of, we talk about the tips and tricks video</p>
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<p>for visiting Colonial Williamsburg.</p>
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<p>And it was Crystal Brooks.</p>
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<p>She actually said, this podcast was very helpful for preparing to</p>
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<p>visit my first time and will also be return to see the things I Yeah.</p>
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<p>So she found the podcast, she listened to it and kind of helped during her</p>
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<p>first visit, even though she didn't hit all the things that we talk</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>Hopefully that we had like parking like that.</p>
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<p>So if you're listening one, you can find that episode it's, you</p>
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<p>can search for it's top tips for visiting Colonial Williamsburg.</p>
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<p>Or if you learn something in this particular episode, especially</p>
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<p>or Hey, tell us what we missed.</p>
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<p>Yeah, and that's a reminder, this podcast is not only history,</p>
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<p>but it's how to visit these sites.</p>
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<p>Spotify, feel free to comment and let us know if you've learned anything.</p>
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<p>We really do</p>
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<p>In the world of American history, few names shine as brightly as Abraham A man</p>
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<p>of humble beginnings who rose to become the 16th President of the United States,</p>
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<p>Lincoln left a lasting mark on the nation during one of its most trying times.</p>
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<p>In</p>
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<p>this episode, we invite you to step back in time with us as we</p>
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<p>wander through the very rooms where Lincoln and his family lived.</p>
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<p>We'll uncover the stories behind the walls and wooden floors where Lincoln honed</p>
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<p>his skills as a lawyer and a politician.</p>
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<p>And our journey doesn't end with this long, his longtime home, we also venture</p>
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<p>over to Oak Ridge Cemetery where the 16th president's final resting place lies.</p>
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<p>Lincoln's tomb, a towering monument to his legacy, stands as a symbol of hope, unity,</p>
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<p>and the enduring pursuit So Jen, I kind of didn't bury the lead there, we're going to</p>
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<p>talk about Lincoln's home in Springfield,</p>
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<p>Yeah, it is an amazing place to visit.</p>
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<p>It when Abraham Lincoln boards the train to go to D.</p>
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<p>C.</p>
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<p>as the 16th president, he leaves in February of 1861, and he turns to</p>
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<p>the crowd in Springfield the last time he will see everyone there, and</p>
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<p>says to this place, in the kindness of these people, I owe everything.</p>
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<p>This is the only home Abraham Lincoln will ever own.</p>
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<p>And what's so significant about that, before we dive into what it looked like,</p>
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<p>is he gets there in Springfield in 1837.</p>
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<p>And remember, this is a man who's only had one year of actual school.</p>
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<p>Right?</p>
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<p>He's self taught himself everything.</p>
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<p>And so he gets to this town and not only does he see promise in this</p>
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<p>town, the town sees promise in him.</p>
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<p>He marries Mary Todd in 1842.</p>
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<p>They live at , Globe Tavern, which is kind of close to where</p>
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<p>his museum is today for a year.</p>
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<p>And then they rent a house on 4th Street.</p>
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<p>This house will be on 8th Street.</p>
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<p>And for a little while.</p>
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<p>For like another year, 1842, they live in the tavern.</p>
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<p>And then 1843, they rent the house.</p>
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<p>And then in May of 1844, they move in to their first home,</p>
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<p>his only home that he will buy.</p>
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<p>And it's on the corner of 8th Street and Jackson Street.</p>
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<p>And you pointed out in the video that across the street</p>
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<p>there's another home that looked like it initially when they got it.</p>
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<p>So I assume that they added the second story.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So when they.</p>
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<p>It's one story, like the house diagonally across the street.</p>
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<p>And that's the house I show because that's what it would have</p>
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<p>looked like when they moved in.</p>
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<p>And as they, they move in with Robert Todd, they've already had one child, but</p>
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<p>as they live there, they have three more.</p>
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<p>And so they need more space.</p>
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<p>So they extend the second story and put the second story on.</p>
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<p>And so it becomes what it looks like today.</p>
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<p>But I, I show the house diagonally across the street, and that's where</p>
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<p>that most photographed spot is as well.</p>
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<p>It's kind of diagonally across the</p>
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<p>They actually have, if you watch our video, they have like</p>
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<p>kind of a, a, a, it's a little more of like a just demonstration.</p>
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<p>But it's there across the street.</p>
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<p>And picture, if you can picture, if you've ever seen.</p>
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<p>An old photograph of Lincoln's home.</p>
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<p>That corner across the street, that's Caddy Corner diagonally, that's kind</p>
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<p>of the most commonly photographed one and we showed different pictures from</p>
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<p>that same across the street street corner multiple times and they, they</p>
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<p>have like a little fake camera and a little badge that says, from here is</p>
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<p>the most, you know, most photographed spot of the Lincoln home all that stuff.</p>
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<p>So it was really neat to</p>
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<p>It's really neat.</p>
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<p>And then, you know, a lot of historic photographs have been taken there.</p>
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<p>People who have come to visit throughout the years.</p>
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<p>And I wanted to give the correct address is 413 South 8th Street.</p>
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<p>And like I said, it's the corner of 8th and Jackson Street.</p>
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<p>And yeah, so I just, I, it's just fascinating to be there.</p>
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<p>Like you said, he is the figure of American history.</p>
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<p>So here he comes to this town, this town that believed in him.</p>
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<p>and he believed in the town.</p>
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<p>He meets Mary Todd.</p>
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<p>Mary Todd's visiting her sister.</p>
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<p>So that's her connection to the town.</p>
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<p>So she sees promise in this young man and they get married.</p>
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<p>They start to have children.</p>
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<p>They move into this house.</p>
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<p>He becomes a very prominent lawyer.</p>
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<p>He's one of the best state courtroom attorneys in Illinois.</p>
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<p>That's, that's so...</p>
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<p>It's hard to picture that nowadays, you know, someone like works their</p>
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<p>way up to become a lawyer that is a hundred percent self taught, you</p>
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<p>know, I mean, it really is incredible.</p>
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<p>You know, he, he, he really, and I think you mentioned it in the video, or if</p>
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<p>not the previous one from the Lincoln museum, that he is kind of like the icon</p>
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<p>Yes, yes.</p>
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<p>And so it's two years after he's moved into the House</p>
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<p>that he is elected to the U.</p>
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<p>S.</p>
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<p>House of Representatives in 1846.</p>
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<p>And then it's in 1858 that he starts, he loses the Senate to</p>
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<p>Stephen Douglas in those debates.</p>
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<p>But that's what's going to catapult him into the White House.</p>
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<p>Two years later.</p>
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<p>So there's just a lot, and we talked about this, a lot of</p>
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<p>successes, a lot of failures.</p>
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<p>He'll welcome three children in this house and he'll lose one in this house.</p>
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<p>He loses Eddie in this house.</p>
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<p>He'll die five weeks short of his fourth birthday.</p>
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<p>So he's born in 1846, the same time he's elected to the U.</p>
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<p>S.</p>
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<p>House of Representatives, Lincoln, and then he dies almost four years later.</p>
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<p>And so they hold his wake in the house.</p>
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<p>So when you visit the Lincoln house, it's not only where all three boys,</p>
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<p>the last three were born, but it's where Eddie's wake is going to be.</p>
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<p>So it's just, it shows you how, so much of the walls hold your life inside of it.</p>
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<p>And for Lincoln, that is so true.</p>
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<p>So when we walk through it, even in the parlor, that's where they</p>
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<p>come in and tell him, you're the nominee for president, right?</p>
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<p>And he doesn't accept it right away.</p>
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<p>So, it's so amazing to be in the space, and that's what I always</p>
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<p>say, to be in the space of history.</p>
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<p>It's where he's contemplating that.</p>
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<p>You can picture the gentleman coming in, telling him, and then his contemplation</p>
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<p>after they leave, after him talking with Mary Todd, after him playing</p>
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<p>with the boys, having some alone time, just how he's contemplating it.</p>
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<p>And we walk up the banister, you know, we walk up the stairs and, and</p>
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<p>the, the docent, the tour guide was like, you could touch the banister</p>
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<p>that Abraham Lincoln touched.</p>
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<p>Like he,</p>
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<p>it was, it was so cool.</p>
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<p>And coming into the house, right, it's, and it's all</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>,it's run by the National Park Service.</p>
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<p>by the National</p>
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<p>It's all free.</p>
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<p>We'll tell you how to visit.</p>
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<p>yeah, we, we, you come in, and the one interesting thing that I thought</p>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
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<p>was kind of neat, because everything is so original, right, and even the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:32</time>
<p>vast majority of the furniture and the items in the house, a lot of that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:35</time>
<p>stuff is, is original, you know, which I thought was fascinating, but that you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:39</time>
<p>actually have to stay on the carpet.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:41</time>
<p>So they have a carpet runner that's basically kind of going</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:44</time>
<p>all throughout the house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:45</time>
<p>And if you step off this carpet, there's actually like a little kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:49</time>
<p>of like alarm that, that signals.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:50</time>
<p>And it happened once or twice because people just accidentally kind of, their</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:53</time>
<p>foot shifted off or something like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:55</time>
<p>But they are, I mean, they do that because everything is original</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:59</time>
<p>Yeah, so when they left for D.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:02</time>
<p>C., they put a lot of the furniture into storage.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:05</time>
<p>They rent out the house, but they had a full expectation to come home.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:09</time>
<p>They had full expectation for Abraham to be president for four years, eight years,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:15</time>
<p>and then retire back to Springfield, Illinois, come back to that house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:19</time>
<p>So even though they had rented their house out, I think they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:21</time>
<p>rented it to the railroad.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:23</time>
<p>President.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:24</time>
<p>They had full expectations of coming back.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:26</time>
<p>And so the, the furniture still exists.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:28</time>
<p>And Robert Todd owned all of it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:31</time>
<p>So when Robert Todd eventually hands the house over to be cared for by</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:37</time>
<p>the federal government, it turns into the National Park Service.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:39</time>
<p>He gives all of the furniture and things to them as well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:43</time>
<p>His two stipulations were it had to look the same, it had to be cared for,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:50</time>
<p>and it had to be free for visitors.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:52</time>
<p>But when you visit, so you can visit the Lincoln Home Visitor Center is</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:55</time>
<p>where you want to go because you need a ticket to get into the house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:59</time>
<p>And you can't just wander in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:01</time>
<p>And it's right on 7th Street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:03</time>
<p>So if you think, this is on.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:05</time>
<p>8th Street in Jackson.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:06</time>
<p>The visitor center is on 7th Street in Jackson.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:08</time>
<p>So it's one block over.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:09</time>
<p>And that's where the parking is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:11</time>
<p>That's where the restrooms are.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:12</time>
<p>There's no restrooms in the Lincoln House.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:15</time>
<p>think they probably, they have like a couple of those little</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:17</time>
<p>like, chamber pot stools.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:19</time>
<p>We showed some of those in the video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:21</time>
<p>But they have no restroom in the house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:23</time>
<p>They're probably the outhouse.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:24</time>
<p>And so, So that's where you're going to go.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:26</time>
<p>You see a little movie, you'll get a ticket because there are only so many</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:29</time>
<p>people they allow per tour, even though it's free, you have to get on the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:34</time>
<p>schedule, and then you'll see a little movie, and of course there's a gift shop</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:38</time>
<p>there, and it's a walk over, but it is all handicap accessible, so you can get in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:45</time>
<p>And then your tour guide will take you in and again, they'll let me do the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:48</time>
<p>riot act about staying on the carpet.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:50</time>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:50</time>
<p>Will our, our tour guide, he was focused, he could tell he'd</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:54</time>
<p>done this a bunch of times.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:56</time>
<p>I actually kind of enjoyed him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:57</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:57</time>
<p>I could tell he was a, he was a, a history nerd at heart.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:01</time>
<p>Just like you , and , the rest of our crew here.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:03</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:03</time>
<p>But He had some interesting anecdotes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:06</time>
<p>It was pretty straightforward as far as what he was telling us.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:09</time>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:09</time>
<p>It was, it was about the same kind of things about the rooms</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:13</time>
<p>being used for him finding about the nomination at Eddie's wake.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:18</time>
<p>The kitchen was the size of his Kentucky cabin.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:23</time>
<p>And so Abraham Lincoln knew that it was the size of his Kentucky cabin.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:27</time>
<p>So he always felt like he had made it in life because his kitchen and his adult.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:32</time>
<p>House was the size of the house he grew up</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:35</time>
<p>Yeah, and it was, it was pretty, that was neat because the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:39</time>
<p>perspective is immediate, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:41</time>
<p>You can, you're standing in this space with a bunch of other people</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:44</time>
<p>hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:44</time>
<p>and the kitchen ain't big.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:47</time>
<p>No, and, and really it's just, it's, it's again, it's just to make</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:51</time>
<p>food because you're really going to spend time in the dining room.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:55</time>
<p>You're going to eat in the dining room and their bedroom suite, which we show on</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:59</time>
<p>the video and the bed doesn't look good.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:02</time>
<p>big.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:02</time>
<p>I say</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:03</time>
<p>Abraham Lincoln's supposed to be tall,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:04</time>
<p>supposed to be very tall.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:05</time>
<p>It doesn't look like a Lincoln sized bed.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:07</time>
<p>So he must have had to bend his knees to sleep.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:10</time>
<p>And it shows some of Mary Todd's dresses, of course.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:12</time>
<p>And then it shows the boys room.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:14</time>
<p>So Robert Todd in 1860, he will have left for college.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:19</time>
<p>And the two younger boys, Willie and Tad, will share that one boys room.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:23</time>
<p>And so they show the boys room as well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:26</time>
<p>And it was neat too because you had mentioned you kind of reiterated</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:29</time>
<p>in this video like we talked about in, in the previous Lincoln Museum video</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:33</time>
<p>about how when Lincoln was raising some of his younger kids, he just</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:37</time>
<p>kind of let them have free reign, you know, and he just kind of let them</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:39</time>
<p>run around because he didn't want them to have kind of adult worries.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:42</time>
<p>And it was neat because I was able to find some.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:45</time>
<p>Pictures of Lincoln sitting out front with two of his younger kids, you know,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:51</time>
<p>kind of sitting on that little fence</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:53</time>
<p>and it's obviously it's cropped in from</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:54</time>
<p>the fence and just so there he was with his kids right there It wasn't very</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:58</time>
<p>clear and it's obviously it's cropped in from a photo from across the street</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:02</time>
<p>that corner we were talking But it was, it was neat to, to see that, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:06</time>
<p>And then they have the same style fence there today as they did back in the 1860s.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:11</time>
<p>So you could picture Lincoln's kids just sitting on this fence and climbing</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:15</time>
<p>around and him sitting out front because you could see an old picture</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:19</time>
<p>And they also said that they would scream out the windows at him because</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:22</time>
<p>he'd walk to and from work, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:23</time>
<p>So when Daddy's coming home, they run out on the porch and run out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:27</time>
<p>On the second story, they would climb out their windows and be on the roof</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:30</time>
<p>of the sec of that first story, that kind of, and scream for their dad.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:34</time>
<p>And people were just so used to the Lincoln Boys.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:37</time>
<p>Acting crazy and screaming for their dad when the dad was coming home.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:40</time>
<p>He just kind of let them do that They said Mary Todd said they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:43</time>
<p>would wrestle around the house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:44</time>
<p>It'd be so loud He loved to wrestle with his boys and he really loved</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:48</time>
<p>what they loved and he hated what they hated so he just It to me, it</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:53</time>
<p>reminds me of someone who's growing up with their children, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:56</time>
<p>Because he didn't have much of a childhood.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:58</time>
<p>So he took the time to really grow up with them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:01</time>
<p>And if you ever saw the movie Lincoln, like he gets on the floor</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:04</time>
<p>and he's playing with the little soldiers with Tad because he wants to.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:09</time>
<p>play with his kids.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
<p>He wants to be immersed</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:12</time>
<p>started working when he was pretty</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:13</time>
<p>Yeah, his mother dies when so it's a really neat place to see.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:18</time>
<p>It's there for you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:19</time>
<p>Again, National Park Service, all buildings were closed at five.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:23</time>
<p>But what's neat about the Lincoln Home is they've kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:25</time>
<p>of preserved the whole street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:33</time>
<p>8th Street and Jackson Street, they've kind of preserved, I would</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:36</time>
<p>say about four blocks in the area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:38</time>
<p>And there's other famous homes there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:41</time>
<p>There's a home where the president of Sears grew up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:44</time>
<p>And so you can walk around other homes as well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:48</time>
<p>And the streets are cut off from traffic.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:50</time>
<p>So you can walk in the middle of them and you can kind of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:53</time>
<p>picture what it would feel like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:57</time>
<p>So you can I can, I can, I would assume that even back</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:59</time>
<p>then it was probably pretty nice.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
<p>Because the houses are bigger, the streets are really wide and right,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:06</time>
<p>you know, if you have the town slash state lawyer living there, or someone</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:10</time>
<p>who's a senator, right, I mean, Lincoln's living in a nice, a nice</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:14</time>
<p>neighborhood because he's, he's done</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:16</time>
<p>It's done well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:17</time>
<p>And so it's almost like Colonial Williamsburg in some regards, they'll</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:20</time>
<p>have, has that vibe and you'll have people who dress up as Abraham and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:25</time>
<p>Mary Todd and you can interact with them walking down the street and they,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:30</time>
<p>they light the gas lights and stuff and there'll be historic talks and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:36</time>
<p>historic tours of the whole street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:37</time>
<p>And they, they have the schedule also at the National Park Service.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
<p>So they do a really good job of kind of immersing you in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:45</time>
<p>Abraham Lincoln's life during that time, 1840s, 1850s, to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:51</time>
<p>right when he leaves in 1860s,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:52</time>
<p>Yeah, and we were on a bit of a schedule that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:55</time>
<p>mm hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:55</time>
<p>we knew that, that rain was coming, and we were also</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:58</time>
<p>trying to to stay on the road.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:59</time>
<p>So from there, we ventured over to Lincoln's tomb, which wasn't too far away.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:13</time>
<p>When he is elected president in February of 1861, he takes</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:17</time>
<p>this long convoluted train tour.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:19</time>
<p>From Springfield, Illinois, mostly the northern route, but he goes through</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:23</time>
<p>the states and hits the Great Lakes And he comes wraps around New York</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:28</time>
<p>down into DC so after he's killed they basically do the same kind of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:35</time>
<p>procession with the funeral train</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:39</time>
<p>1865</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:39</time>
<p>Yeah, so on May 4th, 1865 his coffin will pass in front of his So the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:46</time>
<p>only house he ever owned, the only house, the house he thought he was going home</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:50</time>
<p>to, his coffin will pass in front of it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:53</time>
<p>So the tomb is built over in Oak Ridge Cemetery.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:59</time>
<p>He will be placed into a receiving vault there as they build the tomb and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:05</time>
<p>we show it on the video It is a very nice granite tomb and it has a lot of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:10</time>
<p>sculptures We'll talk a little bit about what you see when you walk in and stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:13</time>
<p>But in 1871 He's placed in the crypt.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:17</time>
<p>It's it's unfinished, but he's so it takes about six years to get the crypt</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:21</time>
<p>made and then In 1887 because people had broken in and tried to steal his body,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:30</time>
<p>they move him into a concrete vault and it's 10, it's actually 10 feet below</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:36</time>
<p>where you actually, what you actually</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:38</time>
<p>and as you walk up, right, parking is pretty easy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:41</time>
<p>You can find it, you can easily look it up</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:43</time>
<p>mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:44</time>
<p>And it's indoor.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:45</time>
<p>So if, if it was raining, you could walk in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:48</time>
<p>walk in inside of, inside of the crypt area, but outside you walk</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:52</time>
<p>up and it's kind of like a smaller version of like a Washington monument,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:55</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:56</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:56</time>
<p>Obelisk.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:57</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:57</time>
<p>all this, all this style with statues of him throughout, I</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:00</time>
<p>think, different stages of his life.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:02</time>
<p>Life and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:03</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:03</time>
<p>Around the obelisk.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:04</time>
<p>around the obelisk and then there's kind of the bust</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:07</time>
<p>of him that's out front, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:09</time>
<p>It's that kind of very he's got such a famous profile,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:13</time>
<p>right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:13</time>
<p>So that's it's him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:15</time>
<p>And we were talking about it just before we jumped on the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:18</time>
<p>podcast, but it's it's the same.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:20</time>
<p>Sculpture model that we use, that was used for Mount Rushmore.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:25</time>
<p>Yeah, Borglum uses the same model and you can tell his nose</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:29</time>
<p>is pretty shiny because people rub the Lincoln nose for luck.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:33</time>
<p>all our kids wanted</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:34</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:35</time>
<p>So you can see the patina on all the other bronze, but the nose is very shiny.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:39</time>
<p>on all the nose is very shiny.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:40</time>
<p>Yeah, that's and then from there, you, as you start kind of behind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:44</time>
<p>the bus, so the bus is looking outwards, facing away from the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:47</time>
<p>and as you walk kind of past the bus, then you start walking into the, the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:52</time>
<p>crypt there, and above the door, I believe, was the Gettysburg Address.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:56</time>
<p>Yes, the Gettysburg Address is right above the door.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:59</time>
<p>And when you walk straight in the door, it's the statue of the Lincoln</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:03</time>
<p>Memorial, him sitting in the chair.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:06</time>
<p>And there's a book there you can sign to.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:08</time>
<p>And so from there, it's kind of like a circle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:11</time>
<p>You walk from the right around into a circle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:13</time>
<p>And there's different statues of Lincoln's life growing up as he progresses.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:18</time>
<p>And then basically, like directly across from where you walked in is where</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:23</time>
<p>The actual crypt is where Lincoln's.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:27</time>
<p>Crypt is, and then the boys.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:28</time>
<p>Now, it gives you the impression that Lincoln is in the middle, in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:33</time>
<p>his crypt, and Mary Todd's across.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:35</time>
<p>They're actually together.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:36</time>
<p>Oh, I didn't</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:37</time>
<p>They're actually side by side, ten feet below.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:40</time>
<p>And the boys are across.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:41</time>
<p>And it's only three of the four boys.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:43</time>
<p>You have Eddie, who has died young.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:46</time>
<p>He was already in Springfield, and they moved his body there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:49</time>
<p>And then you have Willie , who will die while they're at the White House.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:52</time>
<p>And then you'll have Thomas, I'm sorry, Tad , who dies in 1871.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:57</time>
<p>So poor Mary Todd has these three boys.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:00</time>
<p>Robert Todd is the only one who's not there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:02</time>
<p>We have talked about this before.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:04</time>
<p>He's in Arlington National Cemetery.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:06</time>
<p>He really has his own place.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:08</time>
<p>He has a crypt, a sarcophagus,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:11</time>
<p>it's a big one.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:11</time>
<p>it looks just like Lincoln's.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:13</time>
<p>It almost looks like a replica of Lincoln's in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:16</time>
<p>Arlington National Cemetery.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:18</time>
<p>You know, I never actually thought about that, but we just watched the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:21</time>
<p>video before we jumped on the podcast, and you're right, it's the same color</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:24</time>
<p>Yeah, like a pink marble.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:26</time>
<p>And Robert Todd is in Arlington.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:30</time>
<p>There's a long story about So, Robert Todd, we've talked about this before.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:34</time>
<p>He is present with three, present with, he kind of is surrounded by</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:41</time>
<p>three assassinations of the four</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:42</time>
<p>right, so he was basically either near, next to, or in the vicinity of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:48</time>
<p>three presidents who were assassinated.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:50</time>
<p>Yeah, so his father, he wasn't there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:52</time>
<p>He was at home when he was shot, but he's...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:55</time>
<p>by his side when he dies.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:57</time>
<p>And then he works for Garfield.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:59</time>
<p>President Garfield, he's the Secretary of War, and so he's with him in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:03</time>
<p>the train station in Washington, D.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:05</time>
<p>C.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:05</time>
<p>as he's, Garfield's going to visit his wife, and Lincoln is with</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:09</time>
<p>him when he's shot in the back.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:11</time>
<p>You know, he's not with him when he dies, but he's with him when he's shot.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:14</time>
<p>Robert Todd.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:14</time>
<p>And then Mc, McKinley, when McKinley shot in 1901 in Buffalo, New</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:18</time>
<p>York at the World's Fair, Robert Todd Lincoln standing right outside the door.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:23</time>
<p>so</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:23</time>
<p>It's crazy, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:25</time>
<p>But Abraham Lincoln's tomb is amazing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:28</time>
<p>It's, it's really nice.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:30</time>
<p>Not far, maybe like a mile or</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:32</time>
<p>Yeah, and, and I would say you have to go to both.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:35</time>
<p>If you're gonna go, if you're gonna hit the museum, you want to hit the house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:39</time>
<p>If you're gonna hit the house, you want to hit the tomb.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:41</time>
<p>It's like, those are the three big things we saw.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:44</time>
<p>I would recommend it be the three big things you see in Springfield.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:46</time>
<p>The house and the two are free.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:50</time>
<p>The museum is not,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:58</time>
<p>But the tomb All things in Springfield, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:01</time>
<p>Just to kind of summarize, and I know that was the episode that just posted</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:05</time>
<p>before this one about the Lincoln Museum.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:07</time>
<p>It's amazing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:09</time>
<p>The Lincoln Home was kind of like the cherry on top because the Lincoln Museum</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:13</time>
<p>gave you like that Disney, you felt like you were transported back in time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:18</time>
<p>The Lincoln Home, like you really are transported back in time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:21</time>
<p>You're walking through.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:23</time>
<p>The Lincoln house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:25</time>
<p>You're seeing his furniture.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:26</time>
<p>You're seeing his kitchen.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:28</time>
<p>There's stories about this 600 pound stove that he had bought, I think, not</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:33</time>
<p>long before he left for the kitchen that they had brought out like while</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:37</time>
<p>he was in the White House that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:39</time>
<p>Because again, they had planned to come back and it was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:43</time>
<p>It was truly incredible to be there and like you said touch the same banister</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:48</time>
<p>That Lincoln touched every single time he walked up and down those stairs.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:52</time>
<p>It was really cool So as we wrap up this episode We encourage you to continue</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:57</time>
<p>your own Historical Explorations.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:01</time>
<p>Visit these remarkable sites in person if you can, or delve deeper into</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:05</time>
<p>the stories and lessons they hold.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:06</time>
<p>Remember, history isn't confined to the pages of a textbook.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:10</time>
<p>It lives and breathes in the places we visit, the stories we uncover, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:15</time>
<p>the connections we make with the past.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:17</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:21</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:24</time>
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<time>00:24:27</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:30</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:32</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:35</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:40</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:42</time>
<p>you</p>
<p></p>
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