honestly abe

I'd like to wish everyone a wonderful President's Day weekend. I will be off work on Monday. In honor of the men that are cause for a paid holiday I'd like to share this tib bit with you. I heard this on Paul Harvey...of course he told it more dramatically. So here is just the rest of the story.

Lincoln's face was completely shaven until, in his campaign for the presidency in 1860, he was persuaded by a young girl's suggestion to grow a beard. The numerous changes in the style of cutting his beard and hair indicate that he and his barbers or Mrs. Lincoln indulged in no little experimenting for satisfactory effects. His photographs show how they tried a number of different trimmings with one constant feature, namely, shaving of the upper lip and lower lip and upper half of the chin, while letting a beard grow on the lower half of the chin and throat and sides of his face. The coarse, black hair of his head was generally cut so as to remain unusually long, probably for reducing the prominence of his ears. He was self-conscious about his hair, and parted it on either side as he fancied, but it was soon disheveled by the nervous habit of running his fingers through it. (source: http://www.lincolnportrait.com/kempf.htm )

We typically celebrate the births of George Washingon (2/22/1732) and Abraham Lincoln (2/12/1809) on President's Day. But did you know that William H. Harrisson (2/9/1773) and Ronald Regan (2/6/1911) were born in February as well? Now you know the rest of the story.

LYLASarah shares her birthday with George Washington. Meanwhile I get Tito Jackson.