On August 22, 1891, a 17-year-old Lou Henry, the future First Lady of the United States, posed with a rifle on a donkey outside Richard E. Nickel’s general store in Acton. The photo, taken by Nickel himself, is now preserved in the National Archives, with its date confirmed by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. That summer, Lou Henry ...

On August 22, 1891, a 17-year-old Lou Henry, the future First Lady of the United States, posed with a rifle on a donkey outside Richard E. Nickel’s general store in Acton. The photo, taken by Nickel himself, is now preserved in the National Archives, with its date confirmed by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. That summer, Lou Henry ...