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    FAMOUS FOOTPRINTS

    Sep 01, 2023 0 minutes

    uture poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) was nine a circus came to his hometown of Haverhill, Massachusetts. His parents forbade him to watch either spectacle. But the next day, he trudged to town to see whether he could find the president’s footprints. He stumbled upon elephant tracks. Thinking they were Monroe’s footprints, he followed them as far as he could. He went home happy to have found footprints he believed were made by the greatest man in the United States.

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