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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
… but I can review the coverIf it comes as a surprise that O’Reilly gets bigger billing than both Abe and Bill’s hapless co-author, Martin Dugard, you just haven’t been paying attention.
Publication date is Sept. 27. I haven’...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
Lech Walesa, who led the largely peaceful uprising that overthrew communist rule in Poland — and who later won the Nobel Peace Prize — will receive the 2012 Lincoln Leadership Prize from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, the...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
Someone whose nom de web is “A Cajun-Acadian” found a bunch of glass-plate negatives and is doing his darnedest to make money out of them. It’s mainly at the expense of the Theodore Roosevelt family, but he claims one photo shows Abraham...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial unveiled last week in Washington, D.C., contains not one, but two bad quotes attributed to the great civil rights leader. One was actually said first by someone else, and the other is taken so far out of the context in ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
The September artifact of the month at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum is a fascinating piece of political trivia: an 1860s “effigy doll” with the paper face of a bearded Lincoln, which lifts up to show a black head underneath. It was ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
The Illinois State Bar Association apparently thinks Abraham Lincoln is marketing magic. I figured the Lincoln tattoo was temporary, but it’s heading into its third day without fading so far.
Of course, the little sticker that applies the tattoo is ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
This robust Lincoln is in the Commodities Pavilion, at a booth where you get a chance to swing a rubber sledgehammer and maybe ring the bell. Moments after this photo, I rang the bell. The contest is obviously rigged.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
ALO Son No. 1 considers himself a beer connoisseur, in spite of a weird attachment to Natural Lite.* So he was pumped to hear that Rolling Meadows Brewery, Springfield’s new microbrewery, was unveiling its brands in the Illinois State Fair’s T...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
ALO Son No. 1 considers himself a beer connoisseur, in spite of a weird attachment to Natural Lite.* So he was pumped to hear that Rolling Meadows Brewery, Springfield’s new microbrewery, was unveiling its brands in the Illinois State Fair’s T...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
‘ … Do you think you are better than Abraham Lincoln’Huh-uh, not me. The ALO has been at the fair three of the first six days. Wemade it to the Artisans Building Tuesday, where digital artist Jonathan Benning of Springfield has a stand ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
This robust Lincoln is in the Commodities Pavilion, at a booth where you get a chance to swing a rubber sledgehammer and maybe ring the bell. Moments after this photo, I rang the bell. The contest is obviously rigged.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
… From the Capitol Fax caption contest …
I don’t know which comment Rich Miller will pick to win a free beverage at a state fair beer tent, but The ALO liked these:
– From Leroy: “Other than that, how was the museum, Mrs. Lin...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
It’s a great face. But Abraham Lincoln’s face I don’t see it.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 months ago.
OK, this is a surprise: All 250 seats in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum’s Union Theater sold out within 72 hours for the Oct. 3 “retrial” of Lincoln assassination figure Mary Surratt. Tickets went on sale Aug. 1.
As a result of ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
Asian carp might be a bigger tourist draw these days, but Bath, home of the Original Redneck Fishing Tournament, still is proud of its Lincoln heritage.But, like some larger communities we can think of, Bath is also quite willing to exploit Abe for commer...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
Above is one of the line of T-shirts on sale from Springfield’s brand-new Rolling Meadows brewery. Purchasing details here.
This is the only fake-Abe quote endorsed by The ALO. (Incidentally, the whole quote, not just the punch line, appears to have...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
The Petersburg IGA, the sale of which was announced Thursday, is a veritable treasure-house of unheralded Abraham Lincoln art — a product, by most accounts, of the Kent family’s fondness for Abe’s Menard County heritage. The mural that r...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln await Scheels’ customers
There’s more than statues of presidents — Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan — outside the new Scheels sporting goods store in Spring...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum on Tuesday reported that researchers have corrected Lincoln’s speaking itinerary for October 1858. In the process, they confirmed one community’s tradition regarding Abe and uncovered an erro...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
Former Illinois State Historian Tom Schwartz officially became director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum in West Branch, Iowa, last week. Best wishes to him. … But I suspect (and hope) the Lincoln community will still hear from him from tim...
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