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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
I think YouTube was created, really, for stuff like this:
World’s tallest Lincoln Logs structure
Guinness World Record – Largest Ever Lincoln Logs Structure
Lincoln Logs build themselves
And, somehow, Lincoln Logs buildings are lots more fun ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Both these reviews appeared in Sunday’s State Journal-Register (always Abe’s Friend)“Lincoln, Life-Size,” by Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt and Peter W. Kunhardt Jr.: Random House, $50.
Abraham Lincoln’s face measured ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Bloomington’s three-figure addition to the rapidly expanding tally of Lincoln sculptures is 80 percent paid for, according to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission of McLean County. The sculpture, which will depict Abe being convinced in 1858 ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
The University of Illinois Springfield put out a news release Wednesday congratulating its own Michael Burlingame, whose massive biography, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life,” was named one of The Atlantic magazine’s Top 5 books for 2009.
Of cour...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
The Library of Congress describes the finding of this, for years believed to be only existing photo of Abe at Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863.But Harold Holzer, among others, thinks this photo, discovered in 2007, also may show Abe on the historic day, ridin...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
The usually well-mannered Gettysburg Daily got positively sarcastic in reporting last month on plans for two new Lincoln statues in Gettysburg.
The one above, donated by philanthropist Robert H. Smith, will be formally unveiled Thursday, the 146th ann...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
The University of Illinois and Northwestern University, having buried the Sweet Sioux tomahawk, will play Saturday, for the first time, to win the new Land of Lincoln Trophy, modeled (by Chicago Tribune cartoonist Dick Locher) after Abe’s stovepipe ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
As predicted, the U.S. Mint today announced the design for the “tails” side of the Lincoln penny starting in 2010 — it’s the shield design, the one designated LP-13 when the 18 finalist designs were introduced last spring.
The anno...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Or is it Abe Vigoda A Huffpost commenter isn’t sure.
Today’s squashed pennies
Abe Vigoda was Fish, one of the hapless detectives in “Barney Miller,” a 1970s-’80s cop comedy set in a precinct house in Greenwich Village, New ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Harry Smeltzer of near Pittsburgh, who blogs as Bull Runnings, recently made a 50th-birthday visit to Springfield, his first time here.
Despite hitting the crappiest of our generally crappy October weekends, and even despite some bad advice from me (I for...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
“Abraham Lincoln: A Life” by UIS’s Michael Burlingame is ranked in the “Top 5″ in The Atlantic magazine’s Books of the Year, as selected by the magazine’s literary editor, Benjamin Schwartz. Schwartz’s comme...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
“Abraham Lincoln: A Life,” written by Springfield’s newly adopted historian, Michael Burlingame, would seem to be the perfect reading choice for a Lincoln buff who also owns a Kindle e-book reader (i.e., me).
For no small starters, even ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
… and overpriced at thatThe fourth and final 2009 bicentennial commemorative Lincoln penny will go on sale Nov. 12 at three spots in Washington, D.C. — the U.S. Grant Memorial and two U.S. Mint locations. The usual deal – $8.95 for two...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
They’re all on USA Today’s list of “10 great places to embody Halloween spirit,” published Thursday.
It’s the “Ghosts of the Library” production, and its holographic wraiths, that got the museum into the running....
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Nick Penning, an former journalist from Springfield who went to the Dark Side, and who has been a friend for 35 years, sends the link below to his thoughts on the Springfield Race Riot of 1908 and its place in contemporary memory.
“Visit www.penning...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Michael Burlingame, Lincoln biographer and holder of the Naomi Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield, certainly isn’t unambitious in the topics for the first two courses he’ll be teaching at UIS....
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Oh, yeah, the restaurants too. (The link is to “Adam’s Vlog” from the “Man Vs. Food” web site.)Richman, right: ‘I am the forgotten Lincoln’
Richman also tweeted this about the museum.
I know I’m late coverin...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
I’ve been away from the blog for the last 36 hours or so and as a result almost missed the fact that John Latschar has been reassigned after 15 ambitious, and controversy-filled, years as superintendent of the Gettysburg battlefield.
I don’t k...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Not only is the cast filling out nicely — Robin Wright Penn, Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Wilkinson, the Mac Guy — “The Conspirator,” Redford’s Lincoln assassination movie, is already filming. But nobody’s been ca...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
The Lincoln Coin and Chronicles set of bicentennial coins didn’t sell out quite as fast as expected — it took a full 30 hours for the U.S. Mint to peddle all 50,000 sets. But the sale did jam the Mint’s phone lines and crash its Web site...
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