Unconfirmed

A Mouth-Watering Dish

A Mouth-Watering Dish

The words sizzled like frying bacon. The announcement tantalized the senses like early morning coffee:  “Lincoln is not in his coffin.” It was 1887, twenty-two years after Booth’s bullet found its mark, twenty-two years after the state funeral, twenty-two years after multitudes witnessed the casket slowly lowered into the earth.