Lincoln

A few weeks ago, we watched the movie Lincoln with Astrid, on the computer. Yes, yes, I know, but Astrid was really interested in the subject after reading the Addy American Girl series, so Eliot found it on the internet, and once in a while, it’s okay to do something illegal for the greater good, cough, rationalization. We covered her eyes during the battle scene and paused it every few minutes to answer her myriad questions. I don’t think I was ever so interested in an historical film at her age. Then tonight after watching a segment on 60 Minutes about the movie, Astrid asked, “You know his wife, Mary, well, what happened to Tad after his dad died? Did he go to an orphanage?” It would never have occurred to me to wonder that. According to Wikipedia, he and Mary and Robert Todd Lincoln moved to Chicago, but I couldn’t find anything to answer the spirit of Astrid’s question, which was if Mary was so overcome by the death of Willie to be a good mother to Tad, what was Tad’s life like after the death of her husband?