Meeting President Lincoln and his Wife
September 9, 2006
Will tried a little fishing and Kathy decided to walk along the shore and look for some glass rubbed smooth by the surf. She walked the short distance to the effluence of the little stream entering Lake Erie. One large piece, about the size of a quarter, was laying in clear site right where the waters mix. She reached down, picked it up and saw that she could take maybe one more step before the waters would be too swift. This is where she made a tactical error. She took that step. She sunk into the quick sand up to her thigh. In an instant her heart raced as she sank, then she returned from panic to clear thought. She twisted and leaned forward in one frantic action onto the foot that was still on firm sand. A wave came and helped her to boost her back on the firm land. Wet from the waist down, but safe she walked over to Will on the far side of the little park and asked for a hug.
Grapevines cover fields from Pennsylvania and on into New York.. This is prime area for grape farms because of the layers of glacier silt left here hundeds of years ago. We came to the town of Westfield. S man and woman were getting into a horse drawn carriage. Kathy remarked, “That looks like Abe Lincoln!” We parked around the block and joined the small crowd at the gazebo across the square. Sure enough they were announcing the coming of President Elect Abraham Lincoln! It was Lincoln Days in Wesfield. Lincoln, James Sayre from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky and Life Member of the Association of Lincoln Prensenters, told the story of a little girl that wrote to him saying that he should grow a beard and women would think him handsome and vote for him. He called her up, she was from this town, and showed her his newly grown beard and asked what she thought of it.
The festivities lasted throughout the weekend, We caught only a small piece of it: 150th PA Co. Bucktails were Lincoln’s personal guard (We liked the white tail deer tails on their caps.), presenting the fallen soldier’s wreath which included the speech of Gettysburg (See the movie located in the gallery.), and we watched a few craftsmen performing their various jobs. We enjoyed the streets of town doing our morning walk along the treed sidewalks.
Will tried a little fishing and Kathy decided to walk along the shore and look for some glass rubbed smooth by the surf. She walked the short distance to the effluence of the little stream entering Lake Erie. One large piece, about the size of a quarter, was laying in clear site right where the waters mix. She reached down, picked it up and saw that she could take maybe one more step before the waters would be too swift. This is where she made a tactical error. She took that step. She sunk into the quick sand up to her thigh. In an instant her heart raced as she sank, then she returned from panic to clear thought. She twisted and leaned forward in one frantic action onto the foot that was still on firm sand. A wave came and helped her to boost her back on the firm land. Wet from the waist down, but safe she walked over to Will on the far side of the little park and asked for a hug.
Grapevines cover fields from Pennsylvania and on into New York.. This is prime area for grape farms because of the layers of glacier silt left here hundeds of years ago. We came to the town of Westfield. S man and woman were getting into a horse drawn carriage. Kathy remarked, “That looks like Abe Lincoln!” We parked around the block and joined the small crowd at the gazebo across the square. Sure enough they were announcing the coming of President Elect Abraham Lincoln! It was Lincoln Days in Wesfield. Lincoln, James Sayre from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky and Life Member of the Association of Lincoln Prensenters, told the story of a little girl that wrote to him saying that he should grow a beard and women would think him handsome and vote for him. He called her up, she was from this town, and showed her his newly grown beard and asked what she thought of it.The festivities lasted throughout the weekend, We caught only a small piece of it: 150th PA Co. Bucktails were Lincoln’s personal guard (We liked the white tail deer tails on their caps.), presenting the fallen soldier’s wreath which included the speech of Gettysburg (See the movie located in the gallery.), and we watched a few craftsmen performing their various jobs. We enjoyed the streets of town doing our morning walk along the treed sidewalks.
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