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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer
Andy Thomas, the Missouri artist whose “Grand Ol’ Gang,” a painting of poker-playing Republican presidents (which included the back of Abe’s head) went viral among conservatives following President Obama’s election, is back w...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 5 days 21 hours ago.
Michael Krebs as Abraham Lincoln at the presidential museum on Lincoln’s bicentennial birthday, Feb. 12, 2009. Gov. Quinn isn’t really a vampire. I think.
I received the following e-mail from the star of the “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hun...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 6 days 21 hours ago.
A Springfield man designed the Feb. 12 coin cancellation postmark
Chuck Taylor, a Springfield coin collector, was busy autographing his U.S. Postal Service design during the 2010 Lincoln penny release ceremony, held in Springfield Feb. 11.
That’s ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 week 1 day ago.
Honest, I thought I was done with “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” But then, dang it …
*Los Angeles Times bookster Gina Mcintyre gives AL:VH a rave review. Writer Seth Grahame-Smith, Mcintyre says, “delivers a well-constructed, s...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 week 3 days ago.
Every other Lincoln blog under the sun is posting this trailer, so why shouldn’t I Besides, it’s the first video I’ve ever heard of that flogs a book. Just another first for Abe, I guess.
“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” of...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 weeks 1 day ago.
The presidential museum’s exclusive “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” T-shirt is $19.99 for most sizes ($21.99 for XXL). The design actually is kinda cool, though The ALO isn’t sold on some other aspects of the deal.
A “Ladie...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 weeks 5 days ago.
Fox News talker Bill O’Reilly, claiming he has “startling new information,” is planning to write — OK, be picky, co-write — his own book on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, to be titled “Killing Lincoln.”
Re...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 weeks 5 days ago.
A reproduction of Saint-Gaudens’ “Lincoln the Man” is part of the Lincoln Prize. The original stands in Lincoln Park, Chicago.Congratulations to UIS’s Michael Burlingame on being named winner of the 2010 Lincoln Prize, awarded by G...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 weeks 6 days ago.
Here’s another event that wasn’t in my earlier list of Lincoln’s birthday commemorations:
“Emancipation & the Dream of Freedom – From Slavery to the White House,” sponsored by the Springfield NAACP, will be perfor...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 weeks 6 days ago.
The Sangamon County Bar Association announced Thursday it is raising money to install three busts of Abraham Lincoln in the county courthouse. The busts — each will be different, depicting Abe at different points in his Springfield legal career R...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 weeks 21 hours ago.
Coin blogger Michael Zielinski predicts a relatively light turnout by collectors and dealers at the official 2010 Lincoln penny rollout, which starts at 9:30 a.m. today (Thursday, Feb. 11) at the presidential museum. As The ALO suggested a couple weeks ag...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
With Washington D.C.’s record snowfall, the Ski Channel called on capital-area skiers last weekend to take advantage of a not-to-be-missed opportunity for a ski first.
“First off, all respect due one of America’s greatest men, President...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
Right after the New Year, Joshua Patty over at Lincolniana wrote a post about the Illinois Preservation Agency’s build-your-own Lincoln sites. These are a dozen buildings related to Abraham Lincoln for which the IHPA web site offers patterns that yo...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
National Geographic magazine has a full-page takeout on The ALO’s favorite cheap souvenir, the squashed penny, in its February issue. Among other things, I learned that the first penny was squashed at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
The University of Illinois Springfield will hold an investiture ceremony at the Old Capitol Thursday, Feb. 11 (Lincoln’s Birthday Eve) for Michael Burlingame, Phillip Paludan’s successor as holder of UIS’s Naomi Lynn Distinguished Chair ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
The University of Illinois Springfield will hold an investiture ceremony at the Old Capitol Thursday, Feb. 11 (Lincoln’s Birthday Eve) for Michael Burlingame, Phillip Paludan’s successor as holder of UIS’s Naomi Lynn Distinguished Chair ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
I’ll do a better post later, but here’s the info, direct from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, on next week’s release of the 2010 penny in Springfield. Note that Mint Director Ed Moy will hold a penny forum the evening of Feb. ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
“Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln” somehow won the prize for U.S. short filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival this week. Most of the “Drunk History” episodes are on YouTube, but the only thing available for “Douglas...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
The unexpurgated spoken version of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, starring David Strathairn as Abraham Lincoln and Richard Dreyfuss as Stephen Douglas, is a Grammy nominee for Best Spoken World Album.
The 14-CD(!!) recording gets generally good reviews on A...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
Here’s as full a schedule of local events as I can come up with for Abe’s 201st birthday. Events are free and open to the public, no reservations needed, except where noted.Feb. 6
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.: “If the Truth Be Told: Diversity in ...
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