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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Kevin Levin at the award-winning Civil War Memory has a very different take than I do on the allegations that Gettysburg Battlefield Superintendent John Latschar used his work computer to download porn.
I’m not going to characterize* Levin’s...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
The MSM suddenly is full of stories about e-books and e-book readers — both the New York Times and Atlantic Magazine have had stories in the last week about the next new digital gizmo. And Barnes & Noble apparently is on the verge of releasing N...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
That’s the judgment of the Dinged Corners baseball card blog. No argument here, but it looks to The ALO that a couple other Lincoln cards from Topps Heritage also went out of their way to use really grotesque photos of Abe.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
… Even at Gettysburg
I don’t have a dog in the John Latschar fight (see here and here), but I’ve basically been on Latschar’s side ever since I visited the new Gettysburg Visitor Center. It’s spectacular. From the point of vi...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Doris Park, one of the sculptors of “Preparing for Greatness,” the Lincoln sculpture to be dedicated Friday at Illinois College, responded to an e-mail I sent asking about the significance of the dog depicted sitting at Abe’s knee. Unfor...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
It’s on Mrs. ALO’s birthday card, bought Tuesday at The Cardologist.Happy birthday, babe.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Abe gets a new statue, as well as a long-postponed bachelor’s degree, from Illinois College in Jacksonville during IC Homecoming activities on Friday.
At first glance, I think it’s fair to say the statue, titled “Preparing for Greatness,...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
And they’re not even issued yet
Anyone who was downtown for the release of the Springfield Lincoln penny in August got a sense of the mania collectors have for bicentennial coins. The next manifestation will show itself on Thursday, when the U.S. Mi...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
And they even provide the tasteless joke Halloweenmart.com offers a full adult Abe Lincoln costume, including coat and stovepipe hat, for $39.99. You provide your own pants.
Oh, yes, and Halloweenmart helpfully adds: “Theater box seat tickets not in...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
History says … Mmmm, probably notI’ve always liked the Looking for Lincoln wayside exhibits — the impressively designed storyboards that commemorate important and/or interesting aspects of Abe’s life in Illinois. My favorite probab...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
My Country Tis of Thee
In addition to portraying Lincoln “in schools, churches, senior citizens homes and events across the United States,” Gerald “Abe” Bestrom of Hastings, Michigan, plays the musical handsaw. He even closes his p...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Springdale Cemetery in Peoria, founded in 1854, will play host again this weekend to “Abraham Lincoln’s Friends & Rivals”, a tour focusing on Peoria-area residents who were friends, acquaintances and, in one case, a regular courtroom...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
When you go out of town and see a Lincoln memorial, you curl into the fetal position, saying, “…he’s…EVERYWHERE!!”
To tell the truth, there are only a couple Abe comments on the Springfield site. And I’m enough of a F...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Anne Tracy Mueller, top this.
Or maybe, as a Washington Times commenter suggests, it’s all just a gang thing.
(H/t to wheredaveis)
Today’s squashed pennies
Appropriately, the Washington, D.C. ESPN Zone has four (unimaginative) penny designs.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
And other leftovers…
Robert Redford’s Lincoln movie, “The Conspirator,” is moving ahead — shooting starts next month, newsinfilm.com reports, and release is likely in 2010.
Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg, who’s been noodli...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Stepping out of character for a moment, The ALO has found the perfect nominee for Best Local Blog in Illinois Times’ annual poll.
No, I’m not suggesting a vote for myself (as of 10 p.m. Wednesday, The ALO hadn’t actually gotten any vot...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
September is a big month for festivals in central Illinois, and Abe seemingly pops up everywhere.By the time Mr. & Mrs. ALO made it to the Petersburg Harvest Festival Saturday evening, an apparently exhausted LemonAbe was supine in the grass.This crea...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Abe’s Corn Maze, by far the biggest image of Lincoln in central Illinois, will be open every weekend in October at the iWorship Center on Shaler Road in far northeast Springfield. Abe’s face (lower field) isn’t quite as distinct as last ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
All 12 photos in the 2010 Historic Illinois calendar are of views inside state historic sites. I think that’s a first.
Of the 12, five have direct Lincoln connections — the Bryant Cottage in Bement, the Vandalia Statehouse, Metamora Courthouse...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Today’s squashed pennies
Three pirate-themed pennies from a squashing machine in the Magic Kingdom’s Adventureland — at the Plaza Del Sol Caribe bazaar — in Walt Disney World.
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