{"id":125,"date":"2008-12-17T13:44:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/2008\/12\/17\/analyzing-the-evidence-abraham-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell-question-2\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:17:58","slug":"letter-to-jesse-fell-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/uncategorized\/letter-to-jesse-fell-question-2\/125\/","title":{"rendered":"Question 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How does Lincoln describe the place where he grew up&#8211;Spencer County, Indiana? <a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/analyzing-the-evidence-hint-2-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell\/\">HINT<\/a><br \/>\na) <a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/analyzing-the-evidence-hint-2-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell\/\">A calm, quiet, neighborhood<\/a><br \/>\nb) <a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/analyzing-the-evidence-hint-2-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell\/\">A place with a lot of good restaurants and successful businesses<\/a><br \/>\nc) <a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/analyzing-the-evidence-answer-2-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell\/\">A wild area with wild animals living in the woods<\/a><br \/>\nd) <a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/analyzing-the-evidence-hint-2-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell\/\">A big college town <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#transcript\"><strong>Read transcript<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lincoln\/jessefell.html\" width=\"638\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"transcript\"> <\/a><strong>2nd Paragraph of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s letter to Jesse Fell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, litterally without education&#8211; He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my eighth year&#8211; We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union&#8211; It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods&#8211; There I grew up&#8211; There were some schools, so called; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond the <del datetime=\"00\">reading, writing, and Arithmetic<\/del> &#8220;readin, writin, and cipherin&#8221; to the Rule of Three&#8211; If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard&#8211; There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. 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