A very long time ago . . .
Lincoln contemplates America’s mythic demands of a hero.
Sometime in the future . . .
On a beautiful day, we visit the ruins in DC.
* Teardown, Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 2025, October, 2025
** Carte-de-visite printed from a lost contemporary negative, probably a copy, of one view of the multiple-image stereographic pose made by Alexander Gardner, in Washington, DC, August 9, 1863. Mellon Collection , From The Face of Lincoln compiled and edited by James Mellon with Hero’s Hill** Carte-de-visite printed from a lost contemporary negative, probably a copy, of one view of the multiple-image stereographic pose made by Alexander Gardner, in Washington, DC, August 9, 1863. Mellon Collection , From The Face of Lincoln compiled and edited by James Mellon with Hero’s Hill curio by Kate Browne
*** Lincoln Memorial with full size Hero’s Hill by Kate Browne