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Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 29 minutes ago.
This ranks right behind the classic Abe Lincoln “They’d have to shoot me to get me back to Springfield.”
Viewed in the window of The Cardologist, 225 S. Sixth St., but I’m sure it’s also available at Prairie Archives on the O...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 23 hours 50 minutes ago.
This is nearly a 15-minute clip from Glenn Beck’s speech at his “Restoring Honor” rally last weekend at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Conveniently for us, however, the portion dealing directly with the Gettysburg Address, incl...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 days 24 minutes ago.
This story reminded me: Springfield, the state capital, is still sadly lacking in monuments to three of the four presidents from Illinois.
Granted, it’s too early to do a lot to recognize President Obama. And at least U.S. Grant has a public school....
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 days 23 hours ago.
Try as I might, I haven’t been able to locate a video of Glenn Beck’s reference to the Gettysburg Address during Beck’s speech at his “Restoring Honor” rally on Saturday. Depending on who you read, Beck either delivered the e...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 week 1 day ago.
Ben Hecht has the last word.
A scene from “The Front Page,” written by Ben Hecht (the real one) and Charles MacArthur and first produced on stage in1928. This version was directed by Sam Mendes in London in 1998.
ALO note: Sorry if you’r...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 week 3 days ago.
I think there are only two references to Abraham Lincoln in the new “interpretive markers” that line the Capitol Avenue streetscape from Seventh to 11th streets. If you haven’t seen them, the markers are decorative pillars, each of which...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 weeks 1 day ago.
… Or: ‘What Was Adam Andrzejewski Thinking’“Super Abe” is the creation of For the Good of Illinois, an organization created by Illinois conservative Adam Andrzejewski, unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 weeks 2 days ago.
Jonathan Benning of Springfield, whose Lincoln prints I’ve noted before, has added what I think is a first in Abe-related clothing: a Lincoln onesie, complete with beard (hopefully spit-up resistant). The all-cotton onesie comes in four sizes at $15...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 weeks 3 days ago.
For the first time since I’ve been looking for Lincoln at the Illinois State Fair, there was no Lincoln art in the Artisans Building. Luckily, Hobbies, Arts and Crafts filled the void.
Carolyn Stine of Springfield won a first-place award, along with...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 2 weeks 3 days ago.
I’m don’t listen much to jazz, and I know even less about it. But I’d at least heard of Abbey Lincoln before her death on Saturday. Turns out there’s a story behind the name.
The jazz singer/songwriter began her career as Gaby Wo...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 weeks 45 minutes ago.
The city of Springfield quietly last week installed a plaque explaining what Springfield’s Race Riot memorial commemorates and why it is necessary. The memorial itself was installed about a year ago in Union Square Park, directly across from the Abr...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 weeks 48 minutes ago.
… And they’re both the same book“People & Places in The Land of Lincoln,” by Dan Guillory, Mayhaven Publishing, Mahomet; $17.95 (paperback). Widely available in central Illinois.
In one of his characteristically illuminating t...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 weeks 23 hours ago.
Dorothy Parker once famously described a performance by Katherine Hepburn as running “the gamut of emotions from A to B.” Charles Isherwood in the New York Times isn’t much kinder to “Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party,&#...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 3 weeks 4 days ago.
The photo above, posted on a site called Neatorama, is being touted as the newest earliest photo ever of Abraham Lincoln. Astoundingly — considering it doesn’t look a darn bit like him — there seem to be a lot of people who think it real...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 weeks 1 minute ago.
The 12th annual Conference on Illinois History is Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at the Prairie Capital Convention Center and Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. Abe will be part of the discussion, sure, but the highlight speakers will talk about Cahokia, art contr...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 weeks 1 day ago.
And the other nine of the Top 10 questions on a Lincoln Home tour … (from the Lincoln Home Facebook site):
10. When did Mary have the guard rails installed
9. Is this the White House
8. Why did the Lincolns have separate bedrooms
7. What room did...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 4 weeks 1 day ago.
From SlateV.com: How Andrew Breitbart would have edited the Gettysburg Address.
(And be sure to read the news trailer:”‘Glenn Beck calls for pennies to be replaced with gold”.)
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
An uncharacteristically chipper Mary Lincoln
One of the principles behind this summer’s “History Comes Alive” presentations in Springfield is that re-enactors can bring the Lincoln story, almost literally, to life. By and large, I think ...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
So proclaims the geographically challenged wedding site TheKnot.com, which says, “History buffs will love the rotunda. …”
I’m not disagreeing with the selection, though — back in the days when the SJ-R (always Abe’s fri...
Posted by The Abraham Lincoln Observer 1 month ago.
I’m a crank, I know, on the subject of Vachel Lindsay. Springfield native son or not, Lindsay’s poetry (even “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight”) has turned me off since high school.*
So Thursday night’s “History Comes ...
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