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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 months ago.
It was a lot more fun to write about Steven Spielberg’s long-planned “Lincoln” movie when it looked like it would never be made. So I haven’t paid enough attention to it since it’s been an increasingly real project. But I jus...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
All four of the presidential sculptures outside the main entrance to Springfield’s new Scheels outdoor store are the work of either George or Mark Lundeen, brothers and sculptors who work out of Loveland, Colo. I was totally focused on the president...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
The presidential Hall of Fame inside Springfield’s new Scheels outdoors store has six figurines. All statuettes are on the upper level of the store. The places of prominence at either end go to Lincoln and Jefferson, both of whom “speak”...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
The indoor Abraham Lincoln at Springfield’s new Scheels sporting goods store — there’s an outside statue too — delivers part of the Emancipation Proclamation, followed by the Gettysburg Address. I videoed only the second half.
The ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
TJ is one of two speaking presidential figurines at Springfield’s new Scheels store. The other, naturally, is Abe. I’ll post that take later. (And, yes, all the plastic presidents sport that dashing “don’t touch” button on ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
In a long NY Times review, Geoffrey Wheatcroft concludes that Amanda Foreman’s “A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War” is a “remarkable book.”
I missed it while on vacation, but Michael Burlingam...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
… a quote from “Bad Teacher” that, unfortunately, doesn’t apply to Cameron Diaz A key section of “Bad Teacher,” the new Cameron Diaz/Justin Timberlake movie, is set in Springfield and Lincoln’s New Salem State His...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
The above check, from Abraham Lincoln to, probably, Samuel L. Whipple, was worth $12.50 when Abe wrote it in January 1859. It sold at auction Wednesday for $13,045.
The auction house, RR Auction, didn’t identify either the buyer or the seller. But R...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library on Wednesday announced the discovery of two previously unknown documents written by Abraham Lincoln.
They were turned up by a summer intern, James Spriegel of Gurnee, a student at St. Mary’s University in Min...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
“My Best Friend, Abe Lincoln,” pitched to 5- to 8-year-olds, is an innocuous enough kids’ book, sticking just close enough to the truth of Lincoln’s adolescent years as to not be totally misleading (the scene at left, for instance,...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
… and writes only about the flagpole.
The June 13 issue of The New Yorker includes a series of letters the famous Russian-born novelist (”Lolita”) Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera while on a lecture tour through the U.S. in fall ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 7 months ago.
Amanda Foreman, a British historian known for (a) her bestseller “Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire” and (b) her unconventional apparel choices while promoting her books, will be at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum on Monday,...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
The Sangamon County Historical Society will sponsor a bus tour Sunday, July 3, to mark the 150th anniversary of U.S. Grant’s “march to fame” from Springfield to Naples, Ill. in 1861.
Leading the tour will be John Alexander, owner of B...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
The Moby Awards are a sardonic tribute to the new phenomenon of video trailers for books, the first one of which I ever heard was the trailer for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” I thought it was goofy, but kind of cool.
Of course, I thought...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
I missed this last week, but Rod Blagojevich, under cross-examination, name-checked Abe. Shockingly, the Chicago Tribune pointed out, Blago left out the story’s ending.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
The Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau has this summer’s schedule, starting here. The Lincoln Troubadours, Fritz Klein and Gen. Grant are all back, and Mary Lincoln gets a prominent role around the anniversary of her death.
It’s after ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
The Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site and the 114th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry Reactivated will once again hold weeklyflag lowering and retreat ceremonies starting June 7 and continuing every Tuesday through Aug. 30.
Once the American flag is lo...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
Stephen Douglas (Tim Connors) and Abraham Lincoln (George Buss) will replay their old rivalry — and the reconciliation that took place shortly before the Civil War — at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Old State Capitol. Based on this YouTube clip of a ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
Not too much Lincoln material at the Old Capitol Art Fair this year — I saw only three booths with Lincoln artwork; my apologies if I missed any others.
1) Maria Pfropper of Dryden Michigan, on the South Plaza, had the most visible Abe presence, a r...
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