November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal More than likely few Americans stop to consider the origins of celebrating Thanksgiving every year on the last Thursday of November. Why not a Friday or a Saturday? The answer lies in a bit of Lincoln history. On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the first annual national “Thanksgiving Proclamation” designating the last Thursday [...]
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November 18, 2009 | Posted by javal A boy who was mocked by his disbelieving classmates after he met former President Lincoln has sweet revenge more than a century later.
Eight-year-old George Patten met the commander-in-chief with his father, a journalist.
The American Civil War leader wrote to the young boy, after his school friends refused to believe he had met the 16th President.
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November 17, 2009 | Posted by javal Another significant Abraham Lincoln anniversary will pass this week with no showing from the 16th president’s 7-foot-6-inch bronze likeness that a Utah-based sculptor has offered as a gift to Gettysburg.
Though the statue itself is finished, the logistics of finding it a permanent home are far from complete.
Thursday — the 146th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal The phrase “Thank God we have a government” is unlikely to turn up in any graffiti seen these days.
But things were different in 1861, and when Jonathan Dillon got the chance to scribble on someone else’s property, the phrase was included in his message.
That we know this, close to 150 years later, is due mainly [...]
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November 10, 2009 | Posted by javal The sixth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, “Lincoln, the Civil War and Memory,” will honor Abraham Lincoln through presentations and filmic representations of Lincoln’s life and the Civil War.
A collaborative effort between the community and Eastern Illinois University, the film festival will be held Thursday through Saturday on campus and downtown. All events are free [...]
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November 9, 2009 | Posted by javal Highland Mills – As part of its annual meeting and elections, the Woodbury Historical Society will host a program celebrating the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
The meeting will be held Saturday, Nov. 7, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Senior Center on Route 105 in Highland Mills.
This year is the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal Jim Getty bears a striking resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, even when he’s just in jeans and a T-shirt.
It must be the beard.
The Gettysburg, Pa., man has been impersonating Lincoln for the past 30 years. He’s played the 16th president in the Turner Network film “The Ironclads,” and he’s done voice work for numerous Lincoln specials [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal The United States Mint will release to the Federal Reserve Bank millions of one-cent coins bearing the fourth-and final-new reverse (tails side) design in the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent Program on November 12, 2009. The design is emblematic of Lincoln’s presidency in Washington, D.C. For a limited time only, the agency will offer the 2009 [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal Two more Lincoln Wayside Exhibits will be dedicated next week in Jacksonville.
The exhibits will be the fourth and fifth of 10 Looking for Lincoln displays being dedicated in the city to show the connection between it and Abraham Lincoln.
There are 210 wayside exhibits in 50 communities in central Illinois.
The newest exhibits honor Richard Yates, the [...]
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October 27, 2009 | Posted by javal The 1864 presidential election marked the first time that New York’s soldiers could vote by absentee ballot, and allegations of fraud were rampant.
The Gettysburg National Military Park features a display of a New York state voter’s affidavit in the visitors center museum at the site of the epic Civil War battle. That affidavit was signed [...]
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