Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
TODAYWhere the toys areThe Vintage Toy and Doll Show offers thousands of items for sale, and check out the Doll & Bear Expo, stationed alongside the show. There will be more than 150 tables loaded with items from the 1950s to the 1980s, plus a Build-a-Doll booth where customers can build a 20-inch doll. Admission is $5; children under age 12 are admitted free. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Ramada Plaza Convention...
Veggie Chic (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
No visit to the Springfield, Illinois is complete without seeing at least one or two Abraham Lincoln historical sites. Of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Lincoln home and his grave, the most moving, in my opinion, are the last two. The Presidential Museum is educational and attractive, but you feel Lincoln’s presence much more touring the home he lived in when he left to...
pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Iris Seliger knows it's coming, once she gets going Thursday. Seliger will be on a bus, destined for O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Peoria will be in the rear-view mirror. "One eye sad and one eye (happy)," said Seliger, who is from Friedrichshafen, Germany, Peoria's sister city.
Where's My Jetpack? (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Dominating the skyline like an Eastern European monument to thoughtless architecture, the Springfield, Illinois Hilton lends an eerie ugliness to a town whose chief qualities are eeriness and ugliness. Scene of Obama's announcement to run for President (an impressive event) and the home of the Illinois State Capitol (an impressive structure) the town also hosts the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Documents bearing signatures of U.S. presidents have turned up in a lot of unexpected places: Attics, libraries, even thrift stores.
Library Journal News (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
Letter in special collections yields a find.
Civil War Bookshelf (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
I think that I shall never see...It's been over 20 days since the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum appeared in any news item in this Bicentennial year.We go to the ALPLM website and click on EVENTS for a surprise. The big February to May event is an art show featuring Don Pollack (whose painting is featured topside). Don's exhibition is offering "a conversation with painting,
HillBuzz (Free subscription) | 02/20/2009
How great is it that two of our favorite people of the present, Hillary Clinton and Sheila Jackson Lee, have teamed up to honor one of our favorite people from the past, SOJOURNER TRUTH? We remember back in Catholic school, one of the nuns we had in 2nd or 3rd grade LOVED Sojourner Truth, and always [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/15/2009
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - It's all Lincoln, all the time, in this state capital where our 16th president honed his political skills. Along wide boulevards and deco skyscrapers, abundant plaques, tours, and reconstructed 19th-century buildings pay homage to Abraham Lincoln's pre-presidential years.
HillBuzz (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Please watch the above clip from The Simpsons. Monorail! Monorail! Monorail! Because Harry Reid has managed to jam $8 billion into Obama’s Trillion Dollar Jockstrap of Spending to build a super fast bullet train that will apparently “hover” on magnets above the desert between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. This sounds like not only a desperate bid by Reid to [...]
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
FEBRUARY 12, 2009 - Raydeane James (left) from Springfield hugs President Abraham Lincoln after the President's wife Mary Todd Lincoln (far right) took their picture with James' camera at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in downtown Springfield. James and the President are standing in front of a life-size model of Lincoln's 1818 childhood one-room cabin home in Little Pigeon Creek,...
pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Reciting the Gettysburg Address aloud with the rest of her school on Thursday is especially meaningful today for Ariana Adams. "It means we are one nation," said the sixth-grader at Mark Bills Middle School. Like thousands of students in Illinois and around the world, at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, students at Mark Bills recited the Gettysburg Address to mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's...
Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
OXFORD — A student at Miami University has discovered what experts say is a fingerprint belonging to Abraham Lincoln from nearly 150 years ago, according to the university.
Speaking of History (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Hello. We continue our list of ways to celebrate Lincoln's birthday with an opportunity for you and your students to make history. Join the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in reading... Eric Langhorst, an 8th grade American History teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history.
pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Beverly Manor Elementary School students welcomed a special guest Tuesday. Two days before his 200th birthday, Abraham Lincoln - actually, a reasonable facsimile of the United States' 16th president - spoke in the school's gymnasium, to fourth- through eighth-graders.
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