06/24/2008
Nearly 30 groups met on May 29th in Washington to deliberate on the many ways to celebrate Lincoln's bicentennial in the nation's capitol.
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06/19/2008
Nearly every adult over 50 who went to public schools when history and civics were still widely taught knows stories about Lincoln’s love of learning. Imagine how he would have reveled in the book world today. The ALBC plans to have a major Lincoln presence at most of the great Book Fairs.
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05/30/2008
Mr. Lincoln's Boys, written by Staton Rabin with illustrations by Bagram Ibatouline, is a captivating and beautiful book about Lincoln's close relationship with his two younger sons, Tad and Willie.
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"Mr. Lincoln's Boys". Thank for the information about this book. Now I'll must read it out
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nice
Posted by: jane (jane@yahoo.com) on 06/30/2008
05/20/2008
How do we get thousands of inner-city kids to study the words of Abraham Lincoln?
Hip-Hop.
The Lincoln Hip-Hop Battle is a web-based competition intended to encourage urban youth to learn about Abraham Lincoln. The premise is simple: a contest offers prize money to the best recorded hip-hop tracks that incorporate the words, history and meaning of Abraham Lincoln.
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I think if the teacher is cool, then it's easier for the youth to learn rather than have a grump old teacher, if you know what I mean. :)
Posted by: bikini girls (nadinecryle@aol.com) on 05/26/2008
I think this is a great way to grab any kids attention! If you can find to grab a child's interest with modern pop culture, they will listen and get involved with anticipation, IMO.
Posted by: Payday Loan (ken@rapidpaydayloans.net) on 06/02/2008
"4 score and 7 tracks" is excellent! I work with an event promoter who specializes in hip-hop shows in Chicago. I think there definitely could be some synergy with this project. Email me if you want.
Posted by: Trey (wordtrey@hotmail.com) on 06/04/2008
I think that this is a great and modern idea to bring kids to a very important historical celebration. This is very good to know!
Posted by: George Hammond (moneypartners@gmail.com) on 06/30/2008
05/16/2008
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, represented by Oprah Winfrey, awarded the Lincoln Leadership Prize to Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday, May 13 in Chicago.
Soft-spoken yet powerful and energized with (should we say self-deprecating but biting) humor, the former Archbishop of Cape Town told Museum supporters this occasion meant more to him than his Nobel Prize.
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05/12/2008
Lincoln lovers everywhere send me e mails, phone calls, and handwritten letters. Many of these communicants have provocative engaging ideas about how Lincoln’s 200th birthday should be celebrated. These often original and always heartfelt ideas should not vanish into the air.
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We need to recognize the incredibly resourceful staff of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, led by supt Randy Wester, who decided late Sunday morning to move the celebration to the amphitheater at Lincoln State Park. The high winds and rain, and 50 degree temp required that. And the staff of the state park, in cooperation with LIBO, came through in the clutch.
The weather did not dampen the quality of the event. The estimated attendance was between 500 and 600, for the record.
Posted by: Darrel Bigham (bigham10@insightbb.com) on 05/14/2008
I would like to share two ideas that I have had for many years.
Stained Glass Window Funded by School children
As a way to commemorate Lincoln’s birth and his enduring legacy, a Lincoln stained glass window could be commissioned to an artist and then placed in Smithsonian’s National American History Museum in Washington, so that every child would have an opportunity to view it.
A way to “fundraise” for a project like this would be similar to the way that the Statue of Liberty was erected and paid for by the millions of people and school children using their spare change in the 1890’s. I know that fundraising for the Abraham Lincoln Library & Museum in Springfield was partly due to a program funded by local school age children giving their pennies to the “Pennies for Lincoln” fund. All the funds then collected were sent to participating banks and deposited into the special fund. Now think of all those school children who learned about Lincoln able to come to the Library & Museum and see how they helped in the building.
I would propose that a national wide effort be coordinated by the Commission between the new Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and Education Department to schools so that every child, even the poorest one, could participate by adding their pennies. The collection could be coordinated to coincide with Lincoln’s Birthday for a specific year preferably before Feb. 12, 2009. It could be added under the Education section of the planned school outreach and curriculum for 2008-9 school years.
If the commissioned wanted to further expand the fundraising to the various Lincoln groups, a replica of the window could be available for a reasonable price to group/associations members. Those funds would go to aide an ongoing effort like the restoration of the President Lincoln and Soldiers Home.
I envision a window 5’ x 10’. I am enclosing some color pictures from France’s Saint Chappelle. The windows were made with a special technique called grisaille that delineated features. The windows are some of the most beautiful in the world.
Three different themes for the window:
1. Lincoln’s Love of Children & Education.
The main focal point will be taken from the photograph of Lincoln with son Tad taken February 9, 1864 to show his love of all children, (not just his own sons).
Lincoln lying down stretched out with his head next to the fireplace reading at night Because of Lincoln’s example, to enjoy reading.
Life long learner – Books – law books, military books, Shakespeare, The Bible
I can envision incorporating into other portions of the window children can identify with President Lincoln.
Grace Bedell- and her famous letter to ask him to grow a beard
Lincoln’s love of kids - Lincoln walking kids grabbing his coat tails and making his top hat fall off!
Lincoln carrying one of his sons on his shoulders
Free Black children encircling Lincoln and Tad when he came to Richmond
Tad in uniform
Fondness for Tad and Willie’s goats Nanny &Nanko
Judge David Davis’s son George got rides in Lincoln’s buggy when he and Davis were on the Circuit
2. Advocate for Democracy - How he was able to further its causes by holding our nation together and the leadership model that will inspire counties to move toward Democracy (i.e. Poland.)
3. Collage –
Profile of Lincoln’s Face in the Center with symbols surrounding in a rectangle or oval design:
Log Cabin next to outline of KY, IN, IL as the ”Land of Lincoln”
U.S. flag 1861-65 to show the 34 states
Outline of U.S. map with clear divisions - Union in Navy glass, Neutral states in tan or other color, and C.S.A in Grey, with line showing the divide
White House
Handshake between Union and Confederacy to represent his plan for reconstruction and Unity after war years.
The Lincoln Memorial.
Building The Lincoln Memorial was expression of the generation who followed his assassination of what he meant to their lives. The generations who have followed have experienced the Memorial. My hope is that the idea of the stained glass window would be the current generation’s expression of our feelings on this 200th year of this visionary and extraordinary man’s life!
Action Comic Book
One of the more challenging age groups to engage is 10-18 year olds. I propose the commission approach DC Comics to create a limited edition action comic book. The basis could be my novella Ride With the Assassin offering the young readers a way for making history come alive and make events surrounding Lincoln’s Assassination leap off the page! The comic would feature the teenager Mark Harris as the hero. This would be similar to Smallville, the comic book about young Clark Kent/Superman. There might be opportunities for cross-advertising between Warner Brothers and DC Comics. Some interesting stats about Smallville and DC Comics include:
The Warner Brothers TV series Smallville is the highest commercial AD seller for 30 second spots for $ 213,000 being paid for fast food chains like MacDonald’s!
Age group that reads Smallville is 15-25.
DC Comics writes and publishes 1,000 comic books a year. They are planning to include a patriotic themed comic book soon.
If you are intrigued and would like to know more I will send you the novel.
I can be contacted at the above address or (972) 395-3490 or my email address info@collectibleprofiles.com
Sincerely,
Megan Hardgrave
Posted by: Megan Hardgrave (info@collectibleprofiles.com) on 05/21/2008
