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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
First, an apology: Sorry for the interruption. Now back to our regularly scheduled (ha!) blogging …
Not so funny-looking, really
I’ll just publish the news release below verbatim. I actually like the poster itself, tho I don’t agree with...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
Google vs. the Iowa caucuses
Just for fun, on Thursday afternoon, before the Iowa caucuses were held, I googled “Abraham Lincoln” in combination with each of the leading presidential candidates. Abe is a regular benchmark for politicians, of...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
OK, but how’d he get the stovepipe hat in the phone booth
About this time two years ago, crazed comic book fan Chris Sims rounded up the “purely theoretical” comix adventures of guess who … As Sims says: “That stuff you lea...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
Sculptor Robert Russin died recently, which prompts this link to what probably is his best-known, or at least most-viewed, work: the massive, angular bust of Abe that now overlooks Interstate 80 between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyo. I-80 follows much of the ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
Abe’s birthday events get some extra oomph
Lincoln’s birthday in Springfield gets several days of events this year, as the runup starts to the gala bicentennial. Lead speaker for the Abraham Lincoln Association Banquet on the 12th, the glitzie...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
Bisbee=Chicago
You’d think somebody would already have made a movie about the amazing Civil War career of Anna Carroll, who provided crucial political support to Lincoln and later informed the North’s strategy to invade the South via the Ten...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
Would Abe have been a blogger
Definitely. But he outgrew it.
Lincoln certainly was the equivalent of DailyKos in 1842, when he sent a series of snarky letters to the Sangamo Journal making fun of a political opponent, Democrat James Shields. In a tradit...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
– The Springfield Mass Transit District’s flier for its experimental night bus service. (Abe, and his shawl, are featured in the SMTD radio ad too. Sorry, no link to that.)- The Rozerem TV ad, with Abe, the chess-playing beaver and the mystery...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
Illinois’ Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, which (it says here) is off to a slow start, recently beefed up its web site. Included are links to info about two promising events.
Bill T. Jones has an Abe dance opus planned for Ravinia. Jones might be ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
If Congress ever eliminates the penny, what will happen to penny-squashing machines, ubiquitous dispensers of cheap, but unique, souvenirs at tourist sites all around the U.S.
Naturally, there’s a web site that keeps track of penny-squashing opport...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
Collected at 11 West in Springfield (thanks to Dave of wheredaveis.com, even tho he scooped the ALO on blogging the photo)
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
Stereoview photos apparently show Lincoln at Gettysburg prior to The Speech. USA Today has the best versions we’ve seen. The Philadelphia Inquirer was among many outlets also reporting on the find.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 years ago.
Nicholas Cage’s next movie, “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” revolves around missing pages from the diary of John Wilkes Booth. The search somehow leads to Mount Rushmore. Release date is Dec. 21 … More here:
Disney
IMDB
Rotte...
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