Casting Deep Shade by C.D. Wright5/14/2023 The tree, real enough, was probably not big enough at the time to provide shade for the idle, bookish type.Ī copper beech is planted in front of his seated statue in Louisville, where with bronze book balanced on his knee, pried open by a bronze finger, he watches the Ohio roll on, where he first saw slaves unloaded, and was put wise to his revulsion toward the peculiar institution. This is where he rode Old Bob, grey shawl over his own grey shoulders, and though usually accompanied by a cavalry detail, did once have his high hat shot through. This is where Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation, and the kids could play mumble-the-whatever-the-hell-it-is-peg. /rebates/2fCasting-Deep-Shade-An-Amble-C-D-Wright2fbook2f41506028&. Though Lincoln was known to have enjoyed reading under a beech, it is apparently not true that he and his son Tad played and read under a copper beech at the cottage on the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home. For all we know he may have liked to look at dirty flip books under the ample canopy of a solitary beech. Home in Illinois, Lincoln liked to read under a beech.
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