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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
So much for Adrien Brody, Timothy Olyphant, Eric Bana, et al …
Walker is, um, best known as the title character in Broadway’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.” Hmmm: From one bloody 19th-century president to another Sounds like type...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Online controversy continues over the discovery that an amateur historian apparently, and blatantly, re-dated a pardon President Lincoln granted to a mentally ill Union soldier in 1864.
One question no one has satisfactorily answered is simply this: The...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Michael Burlingame of the University of Illinois Springfield, in his massive “Abraham Lincoln: A Life,” doesn’t refer to the Lincoln pardon document allegedly re-dated by an amateur historian and exposed Monday.*
However, Larry Cebula at...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
” Naked and screaming, just like the rest of us” — the “Prairie Home Companion” annual joke show, 01/22/2011
Bonus Springfield-related joke
“Every kid in the Donner Party was the same age — they were all 8″...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Blame frostbite, bunions and expensive, but ill-fitting boots.
Today’s squashed pennies
One of the experts quoted in the linked story is from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, less than 30 miles from the Scheels store in Coralville. Four designs focusing on Herk...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The University of Illinois Springfield notified me this week that Michael Burlingame, UIS’s star Lincoln scholar, will speak at a Lincoln Inaugural Sesquicentennial observance March 4 at the Union League Club of Chicago.
The event, being held on th...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Featured performers at the New Salem Lincoln League’s annual Abraham Lincoln Birthday Dinner Feb. 5 will be folk-and-more duo Cambric Garden, known in civilian life as Marilyn Walters and Cathy Teel. Their focus will be the true Civil War story of W...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
OK, President Obama’s address at the Tucson memorial ceremony was a great speech. But this great Ask me again in a decade or so.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The new astrological calendar says Abraham Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday makes him a Capricorn; dominant traits were “willingness to work hard and determination to succeed.” As an Aquarius, under the old astrology, his qualities were “...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Last month, Australian actor Eric Bana supposedly had the inside track to play the title role in “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” Now, according to a Deadline.com article co-written by Hollywood gossip maven Nikke Finke, five other actors ar...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
This is a bar that really should be in Springfield, not San Diego. Shouldn’t it
The decor is logs and “Gettysburg Address” posters, and the menu includes Mary’s Lincoln cake with vanilla custard. Unfortunately, the rest of the fo...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Most of the details for this year’s Lincoln’s Birthday events are at the Abraham Lincoln Association’s web site. Allen Guelzo, as previously announced, will be the evening banquet speaker.
Russell McClintock, author of “Lincoln and...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861 is generally considered the start of the Civil War. But the first shots of the conflict actually were fired 150 years ago Sunday, when cadets from The Citadel (then called the South Carolina Military Academy) fire...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
The famous lines from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural. They speak for themselves.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Spfldbloggers.com, the closest thing to a complete collection of local blogs Springfield has, hasn’t been updated for more than a week now. Here’s what Chris Scheufele of AfterHours Development said when I asked:
Thanks for the heads up. I thi...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Darn, looks like you missed your chance. And, no, I’ve never heard of Howard W. Schmidt either.
(H/t to Dick Hart)
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Washington, D.C., where the Internal Revenue Service is headquartered, observes a unique holiday on April 16 — Emancipation Day, the day in 1862 when President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Emancipation Act, which freed 3,100 slaves in Was...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
Pontiac’s statue of a young, casual Abe got some colorful accessories for the holidays. The statue, sculpted by Rick Harney, stands outside the Livingston County courthouse. It was dedicated in 2006.
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
… Sartorially speakingYes, that’s an Abraham Lincoln necktie Mayor Frank Edwards is sporting in the photo on the front page of Thursday’s State Journal-Register (always Abe’s friend).
Specifically, it’s a cream-colored silk ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 year ago.
… but at least he dances better than Mickey Thomas. (Abe boogies at about 1:30 into the video.)
Incidentally, in 2004, Blender magazine listed “We Built This City” as the No. 1 Worst Song Ever.
H/t: Ryan O’Shea
Today’s squash...
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