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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
(Plus apologies to Dick Hart and Carl Volkmann)One of the distinguishing features of Abe’s birthday bicentennial year has been the renewed attention it’s brought to Lincoln statuary. New sculptures are sprouting up all over — and so, as ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Ta-Nehisi Coates over at The Atlantic magazine solicited recommendations from readers Wednesday on what one-volume biography of Abe he should read. (”Damn,” Coates says. “I was so looking forward to holding on to my simplified view of hi...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
As you probably realized, that’s Miss Piggy of the Muppets as Abe.
For a list of every instance of Abe appearing with, or on, shows that also included Muppets, you want the Muppet Wiki.
Here’s a description of episode 206 of “Muppets Ton...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Sunday’s strip, panel no. 12
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
… and who’s that behind the curtain
Yup, his initials are Richard Snortin’ Myth. And true to form, he’s all over the media with it.
But the other thing that’s true to form It’s apparently a damn interesting museum.
A...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Illinois’ $31 billion capital projects bill includes relatively few dollars for Lincoln-related projects. But, in fairness, the state spent quite a bit in previous years to get ready for the birthday bicentennial.
I could have missed some projects &...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
The next time you want to commune with Abe, have a few Necco wafers. People all across the U.S. learned today — via the funniest hour in radio, NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me” — that Neccos, first produced in ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Liz Murphy Thomas, assistant professor of digital media at the University of Illinois at Springfield, produced the video above to, she says, explore “the iconic representation of Abraham Lincoln.”
“For many viewers, film is their only ex...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
TOCWOC’s monthly list of Amazon’s 10 best-selling books on Abe, posted Thursday, offers few surprises — until you get to the end, where there’s two unexpected additions — one very nice, and one wretched.
No. 9 on the new list...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
This new version, done by Greenpeace, includes some nice closeups of Abe’s face.
Oh, and by the way: contrary to a report published in at least the New York Daily News, Greenpeace did not “drop rock anchors into venerable Mt. Rushmore” ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum is gearing up its publicity effort for country singer Craig Morgan’s performance inside the museum on Tuesday, July 14 (5 p.m., museum admission required). The show is a promotion for the museum’s curren...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
The YouTube video of yesterday’s global warming protest is short and blurry.
But the production values are better on this video, in which Greenpeace spokesgeeks explain the point behind the banner.
Money quote: “Mt. Rushmore is dedicated to th...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
That would be on Saturday (July 11), when the Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site offers a special “Poets in the Parlor” program commemorating the Abe bicentennial. “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight,” of course, is part of the...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
… Check out the DVD version of the old TV mini-series, “North and South.” Almost 20 hours of scenery chewing, even if you skip the widely derided Book 3. (”The way I look at Book 3,” says one Amazon reviewer, “is that t...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
A cheese artiste from Wisconsin (where else would you find one) sculpted a lifesize Abe — 6 feet, 8 inches tall with stovepipe hat — for display July 4 outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The statue was a promotion for Cheez-It.
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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
About that weather guarantee:
Honest Abe lied.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Photoblogging opening night of the Capital City Bicentennial Celebration & Taste of Downtown SpringfieldBanjulele plays “Lincoln and Liberty Too” in the Lincoln Home Visitor Center (they’re on stage downtown Saturday). From left, Ed ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Prolific Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz thinks Michael Burlingame’s “Abraham Lincoln: A Life” is unpersuasive, labored, and ill-sourced. Wilentz also says Burlingame makes some “far-fetched (psychological) assertions base...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Steve Buttry, described as the “C3 Coach for Gazette Communications,” which operates the daily newspaper in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, tries in a recent column to prove that you can impart Lincolnian wisdom via Twitter. “C3″ apparently st...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 years ago.
Abe probably ate corn mostly in other forms — corn dodgers, cornbread, succotash. And as a money crop, he distilled, if I’m not mistaken, and sold (in his New Salem groceries) corn liquor. But I hope and believe he had the chance every summer ...
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