GUIDE: This is the dress Mary Todd Lincoln wore in 1865… And, if you grab her arm and pull, you’ll see what a creaky skeleton she had. It could often be heard outside of her body as she performed her duties… Does anyone know which famous catchphrase resulted from this?
BOY SCOUT (hesitantly): “Abraham Leakin’ heard Mary Todd Creakin’ and decided to oil her bones?”
GUIDE: That’s right.
John Bailey Owen presents a truly odd dream-essay about an imaginary new wing of the Smithsonian.
Owen also wrote The Day Coffee Stopped Working for the current New Yorker.