The Lost Page Press -- Abe Lincoln style

[C. in Indy]

I enjoyed this note...   excerpted from the remembrances of Lincoln's beloved stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln:

Abe read all the books he could lay his hands on -- and when he came across a passage that struck him he would write it down on boards if he had no paper and keep it there till he did get paper -- then he would re-write it -- look at it, repeat it.   He had a copy book -- a kind of scrap book in which he put down all things and this preserved them.  He ciphered on boards when he had no paper or no slate and when the board would get too black he would shave it off with a draw knife and go on again...

[Bill_Houghton]

Neat!  A determined lad, and the inspiration for thousands of carpenters (including my younger son) who do quick calculations on the jobsite on chunks of scrap.