abe's old kentucky home...that wasn't

Today's email from BFF

Dear Jennifer,
I think I very much forgot to tell you this part of our Day out With Thomas the Train.

Being very educational and familyish we decided to picnic at Lincoln's Boyhood Home outside of Hodgenville. The trees were shady, the children enjoyed running and playing and Chad shared with us some interesting facts about the Lincoln administration and the events that immediately followed his shooting. And then we went to see the cabin that he lived in during his boyhood years...except he did not live there. That cabin caved in and this cabin was on the property and heprobably maybe saw it or even went it. So we saw "The cabin thatLincoln might have seen during his boyhood".

And then we went on down the road ten miles to see Lincoln's Farm and the Birthplace of Lincoln where there is a modest cabin surrounded by marble and 50 something-ish steps with 16 gorgeous ceiling tiles, commemerating that he was President 16.

This cabin is where Lincoln was most definitely NOT born as its logs date back to the 1840's. But it TOURED the country as his birthplace and I guess once you surround a cabin with marble you just stick with it. But we did find a wonderful stuffed Lincoln that CeeCee had to have. She took him to church Sunday where Skip preached on Lincoln. The preacher was quite surprised that Cee Cee brought her own Lincoln. And thus ended our "Tour of cabins NOT lived in by Abraham Lincoln."

Dear BeLinda,

I am very disillusioned. I have climbed those marbles steps and looked at the cabin I thought Lincoln was born in since I was a child...more times than I can remember. Next you're going to tell me he wasn't even born in Kentucky.