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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
… Well, it was overlooked by me, anyway. My bad.Westminster Presbyterian Church, the descendant of Springfield’s Lincoln-era Second Presbyterian Church, dedicated this marker on Fourth Street just north of Monroe (across from the parking lot o...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
The National Park Service and Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau are in the market for volunteers to help with their new Amtrak tourism program, “Rails and Trails.”
Volunteers will provide education/tourism programs on Amtrak trains r...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
National Park Service maintenance workers will be installing a new roof on the Lincoln Home starting May 31. The project will take about 10 days.
Scaffolding won’t do tourists’ photos any good, but the NPS says there will be no interference wi...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
MSNBC reports on a rumor, pushed by a guest of crackpot conspiracist Alex Jones, that Osama bin Laden suffered from Marfan Syndrome. The same theory has long been applied to Abe.
I think it’s safe to say there are no other connections between the t...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
The first in a series of four training programs for prospective volunteers at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will be at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the presidential library.
The two-hour session will be an introduction to volunteering at t...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
Michael Burlingame’s speech on “Lincoln & Secession: The Evolution of His Strategy,” originally delivered at the Union League of Chicago, is scheduled to be broadcast on C-SPAN 3 twice this weekend: at 11 p.m., Saturday and 9:30 a.m....
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 8 months ago.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library will host a new kind of book discussion and signing Saturday, May 21 — a brunch featuring Adam Goodheart, the author of “1861: The Civil War Awakening.” Goodheart, director of the Washington Colle...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
Illinois State Historian Tom Schwartz got a cameo in this New York Times update, published Monday, on the filming progress of “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.”
With both “Vampire Hunter” and Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
As cool as this sounds (in an uber-nerdy way), it’s confusing that such things are the brainchild of the same people responsible for their website, which looks like it dates back to the Civil War.
H/t to Reverend Dave. Not only for suggesting this...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
And if this movie does finally come off, maybe The ALO will start believing in Santa Claus too
From The Associated Press Wednesday evening:
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Steven Spielberg has selected Virginia to film a biography of Abraham Lincoln starring Danie...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
Move the Michael DeWine Gallery from the visitor center at President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home in Washington, D.C., to the presidential museum in Springfield, lock, stock and storyboard.
I’ve always thought the presidential...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
… that I missed in Washington, D.C. Good Lord, it’s the Robert Pattinson of Lincoln statuary.
Dave Wiegers makes up for all my omissions with a 38-image shoot of Lincoln statues in and near Washington. They’re all good, but definitely cl...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
Tom Schwartz is leaving Illinois to head the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa.
Here’s the news release:
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero annou...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
I’m not sure why this statue of Lincoln delivering his Farewell Address to Springfield is in the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., instead of at the Lincoln Depot, but I really like it and the way it’s displayed. The address i...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
The ALO, spending a week in Washington, D.C., was in Lincoln History Heaven yesterday, with an emphasis on the assassination. We started with a visit to Ford’s Theatre, followed by dinner at the Wok ‘n Roll that currently occupies the former M...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
The Abraham Lincoln Boy Scout Council has a plethora of commemorative haberdashery for the 2011 Lincoln Trail hike and Abraham Lincoln Pilgrimage.
You’ve got your choice of T-shirts, ball caps, hoodies and polo shirts in addition to the traditional ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
Blustery weather forced today’s Lincoln Death Day ceremonies into the Lincoln Tomb itself, making for an intimate setting in the burial chamber — especially when previously scheduled student groups also filed through the middle of the presenta...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will hold an annual ceremony at 3 p.m. Saturday at Rose Hill Cemetery, just east of Petersburg on Illlinois 123, in honor of Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson. Though now obscure, Stephenson founded what once was the m...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
As Steven Spielberg inches ever closer to maybe, just maybe filming his Abraham Lincoln “Team of Rivals” drama, he’s made an unorthodox choice, from at least one point of view, for an actress to play Mary Lincoln: Sally Field. The Associ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 9 months ago.
And, yes, Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination movie is coming to Springfield
Quick cuts from selected reviews of “The Conspirator,” Robert Redford’s indie movie about the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination
The New Yorker (An...
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