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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joseph Mason, post: 1534788, member: 13529&quot;]2manybooks - Thank you once again for your comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Interesting conundrum.&quot;&nbsp; You betcha.&nbsp; I really do commend you for attempting to explain it away.&nbsp; That&#039;s more than the Lincoln community is willing to do.&nbsp; You want to hear my take on it?&nbsp; </p><p>It goes as follows ..... once upon a time, soon after Lincoln&#039;s death, folks who write books for a living (which now number nearly 19,000) decided to start writing biographies pursuant to our 16th president. They felt a photograph of Mary Lincoln in her 1861 inaugural ball attire would make a nice addition, and since they only had a grand total of 26 to pick from, they simply chose the one that painted her in the best light. Of course, other biographers liked a completely different version. There was one small problem with that - the purchase date at Tiffany&#039;s. </p><p>So because the whole story was a fairy tale to begin with, they saw no problem with expanding on it by using Lincoln&#039;s February 20th stopover in New York on his inaugural journey as a convenient solution to this problem. But then that solution became an even bigger problem when some yahoo (me) pointed out to them that not only was there not one shred of evidence to corroborate their version of events - there was ample documented and incontrovertible evidence ( see... Lincoln ... Day by Day) to refute it, including the REAL photograph of Mary in her inaugural gown. </p><p>The Library of Congress, New York Times, etc,...... are in direct conflict with Donald Ackerman and his camp with their dueling photographs - and both are in direct conflict with reality and the historical facts that are available to all of us. </p><p>So they all respond as you have ....&quot;Interesting conundrum ... but nothing to see hear folks .... let&#039;s move along.&quot;&nbsp; And all is forgotten and everyone lives happily ever after.</p><p>Well I ain&#039;t moving along!&nbsp; If gold is truth, the Lincoln community can keep piling on the overburden with their heavy equipment in an attempt to conceal it.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to keep digging away with my pick &amp; shovel trying to reach bedrock. Doubt if I&#039;ll ever get there, but hey, it&#039;s not the destination - it&#039;s the journey.&nbsp; Right?</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW - there is a &quot;Donna&quot;. I just sent her stuff to post on that site. &quot;James&quot; - I just pulled that pseudonym out of thin air like the Lincoln community did with their &quot;story&quot; about the gown.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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