Missing Lincoln

A trip to D.C. would not be complete—at least for our family’s Lincoln Scholar—without a visit to the Ford’s Theatre. We stopped for the exhibits and presentation, just as we did two years ago, but this time we also headed across the street afterward for a tour of the Peterson House, where President Lincoln was taken after being shot in the theatre and ultimately died.

The Peterson House features a three-story cylindrical tower made up of approximately 7,000 books about the 16th president. I think Olivia’s read half—or 1.5 stories—of them.