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For Immediate Release:
January 26, 2006 |
Contact: Jill Burwitz (ALPLM)
(217) 558-8970 office
(217) 299-6165 cell |
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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Celebrates Lincoln's Birthday
Festivities to include seminars, music and more
SPRINGFIELD, IL: One-hundred and ninety-seven years ago, Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. Today, his birth is observed across the country and, for the first time, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Below is a list of events scheduled for Lincoln's birthday weekend celebration.
Saturday, February 11
| All Day |
Prof. Phineas Fairhead, Practical
Phrenologist
Central Plaza (Museum) |
| 9:30am |
Abraham Lincoln's Springfield - Historian
Dr. Bryon Andreasen addresses subjects such as: Where did Lincoln
buy the wedding ring he gave to Mary Todd? What kinds of leisure
activities did the Lincolns partake? He will also discuss Lincoln-themed
Springfield walking tours. First Floor Classroom (Library) |
| 9:30am - 10:00am |
Civil War-era Songs by Randy Erwin
Central Plaza (Museum) |
| 10:00am - Noon |
Book Sale and Signing,
with Betty Carlson Kay, author of What Did Lincoln
Do in 1832?
(Museum Store) |
| 10:15am - Noon |
Old-time Tunes by The Prairie
Chickens
Central Plaza (Museum) |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Ceremonial Flag Raising - The ALPLM is honored to fly a US flag that flew over an Army camp near Baiji, Tikrit in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The flag was presented to the State of Illinois, in recognition of the state's first-rate treatment of veterans, by Army Specialist James Wagner, who returned from Iraq in July. The American flag flew over Spc. Wagner's Army camp. Spc. Wagner feels a special connection to Abraham Lincoln as he shares the sixteenth president's birthday, February 12. The brief ceremony will be performed by local Boy Scout Troop 202 of Springfield. Public welcome. |
| 11:00am |
Story Time in the Attic
Mrs. Lincoln's Attic (Museum) |
| 11:00am |
Major Findings from the Lincoln
Legal Papers - A project team member discusses the
findings of fifteen years of research and investigation, including
the final phase of the project, a four volume selection of cases
representative of Abraham Lincoln's legal practice, which will
be published by the University of Virginia Press in 2007. First
Floor Classroom (Library) |
| 11:30am - 3:00pm |
Birthday Party Games and Craft
Activities
Mrs. Lincoln's Attic (Museum) |
| 12:15pm - 2:15pm |
Nineteenth Century Music by The
Prairie Aires
Central Plaza (Museum) |
| 1:00pm |
Story Time in the Attic
Mrs. Lincoln's Attic (Museum) |
| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Meet sculptor John McClarey, creator of "A Greater Task" - the spectacular new piece that will soon grace Union Square Park across the street from the presidential museum. The Museum Store offers a spectacular moquettes of this exquisite piece, along with a new life-size bust of Lincoln.
(Museum Store) |
| 1:30pm |
The Archeology of New Salem
- Archeologist Robert Mazrim discusses the earliest locations
of structures that predate those reconstructed by the Civilian
Conservation Corps in the 1930s, including his efforts to excavate
the last unexplored part of the village where Abraham Lincoln
owned property. First Floor Classroom (Library) |
| 2:30pm - 4:30pm |
33rd Illinois
Volunteer Regiment Band
Central Plaza (Museum) |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
Book Sale and Signing,
with Bill Snack, author of Rare Personal Accounts
of Abraham Lincoln
(Museum Store) |
Sunday, February 12
 President
Lincoln's Birthday
| All Day |
Prof.
Phineas Fairhead, Practical Phrenologist
Central Plaza (Museum) |
| 11:00am |
Story time in the
Attic
Mrs. Lincoln's Attic (Museum) |
| 11:30am - 3:00pm |
Birthday Party Games
and Craft Activities
Mrs. Lincoln's Attic (Museum) |
| 12:15pm - 2:15pm |
Nineteenth Century
Music by The Prairie Aires
Central Plaza (Museum) |
| 1:00pm |
Story Time in the
Attic
Mrs. Lincoln's Attic (Museum) |
| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Book Sale and Signing,
with Doris Kearns Goodwin
Please note that this event will take place in the Library Atrium. |
| 1:00pm - 4:00pm |
Abraham Lincoln Symposium
Old State Capitol, Hall of Representatives |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Civil War-era Dancing
by Springfield International Folk Dancers
Central Plaza (Museum) |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
Mike Anderson's Mountain
Dulcimer Music
Central Plaza (Museum) |
Wednesday, February 15th
| 10:00am - Noon |
Book Sale
and Signing, with Dr. Wayne C. Temple, author of Abraham
Lincoln, From Skeptic to Prophet
Presidential Museum, (Museum Store) |
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