how will we celebrate the Lincoln bicentennial?

I didnt know Darwin was exact day!

Let's crash some Appalachian biology classes.

did Abe abstain from alcohol or not?

In the Vidal novel, he accepts a glass of champagne from friend-of-alcohol Seward, noting that it's the first and only drink he'll take that year.

Don't forget, it's Darwin's bicentennial too.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

shit u learn from the ny times crossword, entry 234

Alfred do you like Burr this much?

as Lincoln I mean

shit u learn from the ny times crossword, entry 234

More like shit I learn from Adam Gopnik on Charlie Rose last week.

Alfred do you like Burr this much?

Love'em both (as historical personalities too).

Start checking your spare change:

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/02/12/PH2009021200431.jpg

Nice wood there, Abe.

The unfinished Capitol building would be perfect if the ONE CENT legend curved around the lower half of the coin instead of just sitting there awkwardly in a straight line. I wish it would become a permanent fixture on the coin, actually. The old Lincoln memorial reverse is just plain dull.

little tiny statue of Lincoln inside is awesome.

i can tell you how the public radio was celebrating it this morning: by not shutting the hell up

Where are the Unamericans at to snicker at our new penny designs?

I will not shave my beard.

They Saved Lincoln's Watch

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001449.html

Eyewitness to the Lincoln assassination, appearing on TV in 1956:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iq5yzJ-Dk

the lincoln library in springfield is in major debt and may end up selling off a lot of its collection:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/17/abe-lincolns-library-faces-so-much-debt-its-considering-selling-his-stuff-including-his-hat-and-gloves/

welp, not even as popular as Orange Grifter

i have never actually been to that library -- didn't realize it only opened in 2005. anyone here been?

i thought about it when making a St Louis to Chicago trip a few years ago, but woulda had to get off the train

wasn't quite sure where to post this, but this is an interesting piece by greil marcus, from 1973, on nixon's apparent identification with lincoln:

https://greilmarcus.net/2019/08/11/lincoln-and-nixon-historys-strange-bedfellows-2-11-73/

Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy. JFK has a secretary named Lincoln. Nixon had a secretary named Rosemary Woods.

Isn't it good
Rosemary Woods

people change, statues don't

One year later, President Lincoln invited Frederick Douglass back to the White House. On August 19, 1864 Douglass and Lincoln were together again. The President was facing re-election soon and told Douglass he did not expect to win. If he lost, there would be a new President. With this in mind, Lincoln wanted Douglass to help with a special mission. Secretly, a revolution was afoot. Since the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln hoped for a mass exodus of enslaved individuals out of the states in rebellion. This had not happened on the scale he hoped. Now, Lincoln asked Douglass to lead a network of folks into the rebellious states to help every last soul possible escape enslavement. In language that must have reminded Douglass of his conversations years before with John Brown, the President of the United States was tasking him to help save thousands of lives, if not more. Douglass was asked to help destroy what remained of slavery. As a biographer observed, “Over night, Frederick Douglass went from frustrated outsider and fierce critic to special presidential advisor and organizer of a radical military mission.” After their meeting, Lincoln won re-election and this mission was unnecessary, but “for those hours at least the former slave from the Tuckahoe and the Indiana dirt farmer’s son were making a revolution together.” Though it never happened, it was now clear to Frederick Douglass that President Lincoln realized what was at heart of this war: the millions enslaved.