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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
A Canadian blog, Covenant Zone, from time to time includes “Radio Memories” posts. In 1949, the CBS Radio program “You Are There” imagined how CBS newsmen (and they were all men in 1949) would have reported the capture of John Wilk...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
Lori Rackl of the Chicago Sun-Times rode Amtrak’s Lincoln service to Springfield to spend a day touring Lincoln sites. Did you know Saturday is National Train Day
Given the Sun-Times’ financial problems, The ALO thinks he knows why editors ga...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
That’s the contention on this statue of Abe in Boise, which on Feb. 12 was relocated to a more visible spot and realigned to highlight the Emancipation Proclamation, which Abe is holding in his left hand. It’s said to be the oldest Lincoln mon...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
Six Illinois historic sites with ties to Abe have moved or are moving (finally) to seven-days-a-week operation during the summer season. Included are three in Springfield. Here’s the list:
Springfield: the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices, the Old State ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
Chicago’s Roman Catholic Cardinal Francis George compares (unfavorably) President Obama’s stand on abortion to Lincoln’s on slavery. The cardinal is misinterpreting Abe’s sentiments — as I’ve said before, Lincoln hated ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
Though created by the fabled Jacob Bunn Jr. of Springfield, the original Abraham Lincoln Essay Contest lasted longer in Japan than it did in the U.S.
After 85 years, the high-school essay contest has been revived in Springfield, as Pete Sherman reports in...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
First public performance of 26th Degree ever in Sangamon CountyProbably like many people, The ALO knows little about Freemasonry except for the Shriners parade units. So this sounds intriguing, as well as unprecedented.
The Springfield Masonic Center will...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
The Lincoln Society of Virginia hopes to create a museum on 10 acres of land that were part of the homestead of John Lincoln, Abe’s great-grandfather, in Rockingham County, Va. Lincolns apparently lived on the land until at least 1874, and some owne...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
This painting was one of the items that were to be up for auction at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch last month. (The auction was canceled after the King of Pop sold out a 50-date concert schedule in London, apparently putting him back in the chip...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
Not to blow our own horn … OK, that is what I’m doing … but an often-overlooked Lincoln site in Springfield is the Lincoln Depot on Monroe Street at the 10th Street tracks, which is owned by The State Journal-Register (always Abe’...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
OK, the dispute is settled. The photo below is not that of Abe Lincoln. How does The ALO know Because the alleged Abe photo is the latest cause championed by world-class kook Jerome Corsi, who apparently is writing a multipart series on the photo for the...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
One of the themes of this blog is that Abe Lincoln can turn up almost anywhere. Here are some examples, from Springfield and across the world.Abe’s profile stands out at Deer Cave in Borneo, believed to be the largest cave passage in the world. The ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
Arizona State University won’t give President Obama an honorary doctorate, but Illinois College in Jacksonville has no compunctions about awarding an honorary degree to a different president. Unfortunately, Abe isn’t expected to be there in pe...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
And followups on new pennies & the Welles papers
Next year’s football game between the University of Illinois and Northwestern University will mark the debut of the Land of Lincoln Trophy. It’s partly an Abe bicentennial thing, since the t...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
The Lincoln Memorial will be rededicated this May 30 — four score and seven years after its original dedication on May 30, 1922. President Obama is expected to speak.
Thanks to dmhit66, a diarist on Daily Kos, for this explanation – including...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
Today’s edition of the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” asks: “Where part where me aboleesh zeeb-ery”
Abe Lincoln and vampires, revisited: the Bram Stoker connection
_A little while ago, The ALO reported on plans by Seth ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
I’m not sure when this suspiciously square-jawed, cleft-chinned Abe moved into the window of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency building at 313 S. Sixth St. But there is sort of a historical connection. Before the IHPA moved in, 313 S. Sixth ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
We’re only one-quarter of the way through issuance of the four 2009 penny designs, but the U.S. Mint already is well into planning for the 2010 penny redo.
The heads side of next year’s version of the Lincoln penny won’t change — i...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 years ago.
The ALO finds himself in unfamiliar territory today: agreeing with the conservative blog Little Green Footballs that former president Jimmy Carter screwed the pooch in his contribution to the recently published “In Lincoln’s Hand: His Original Manuscr...
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