tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627534746359696922.post8205141257091146531..comments2023-08-06T05:14:53.575-05:00Comments on Tim Droogsma's blog: My favorite 4th of July storyTim Droogsmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04001402311110480320noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627534746359696922.post-45777554600137148182011-07-06T13:06:10.153-05:002011-07-06T13:06:10.153-05:00Further to my earlier comment, I wonder did JQ Ada...Further to my earlier comment, I wonder did JQ Adams and Lincoln every meet -- what did they talk about -- speculation could make a nice one act play. "One thing you must remember, my young Illini friend, is that a House divided against itself cannot stand."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627534746359696922.post-20436702997188930022011-07-06T02:12:27.308-05:002011-07-06T02:12:27.308-05:00I had not read that...THANK YOU for a great tidbit...I had not read that...THANK YOU for a great tidbit. The church I visited in Quincy also holds the crypts of JQA and his wife. I was there in October, and it's closed to tourists from Labor Day to Memorial Day, but I used the "just a dumb guy from Minnesota" gambit that often works, largely because I genuinely am just a dumb guy from Minnesota. It's on the walls of that church where the epitaph JQA wrote for his parents is posted. (It's at the end of the first chapter in Our Sacred Honor.)Tim Droogsmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001402311110480320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627534746359696922.post-48655027414661347072011-07-06T00:00:06.277-05:002011-07-06T00:00:06.277-05:00Although not really on point, Bennett's book a...Although not really on point, Bennett's book also has an obscure, but interesting fact, connecting the founders and perhaps our greatest President. Among the congressional honor guard at the funeral of John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams, 5th (?) President and subsequent distinguished antislavery member of Congress, was a young freshman member from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com