Museum sign post

One cannot visit Springfield, Illinois without dropping by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. This was not my first visit to the museum, but I still very much looked for to seeing it again.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum

After paying for the tickets, one is immediately met with the Lincoln family in the rotunda of the museum. This is always a great photo opportunity-and I availed myself to it!

B. Nash with Lincoln family

I stopped and chatted awahile with one of the museum guides. She mentioned that young Tad Lincoln had recently had both his eyebrows plucked by a elementary student during a visit. She didn’t think it was an act done out of malice. She thought the young person was merely “curious.” I don’t think Tad would have liked it! Although by all accounts both Lincoln boys were pranksters. Anyway, believe it or not, the museum had a “spare Tad head” in stock. So the eyebrowless Tad head was removed and replaced with the extra one. She told me that the damaged Tad head was shipped off to Ohio for hair replacement. Hmm, wonder if that would work with real people.

I really like the Lincoln figure. It’s also great to be able to get up close to study his features. Mr. Lincoln thought he was quite a homely man. He often made fun of his looks. I don’t see Lincoln that way at all. After seeing images of Lincoln all of my life it doesn’t even enter into my mind. What do you all think?

If you saw a man today that looked exactly the way Lincoln did ( and didn’t know anything about Lincoln), would you consider him ugly?

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