Lincoln Library Dedication

[Chris Gordy]

I just received the weekend schedule for entertainment and where various activities will be held during the Lincoln Library Dedication event for November 16th and 17th. I know that some of you will be going down to this event and will be probably stationed in the Lincoln Home area with the New Salem folks.


LOOKING FOR LINCOLN WEEKEND EVENT/ACTIVITIES


Lincoln Home Neighborhood

Lincoln Home Visitor Center Theatre
10:00 a.m."A Public Interview with President Lincoln" - Fritz Klein
12:00 noonChris Vallillo – Folksinger and Songwriter
1:00 p.m. "A Public Interview with President Lincoln" - Fritz Klein
3:00Chris Vallillo

Lincoln Home Visitor Center Lobby
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Fiber Artists

Tent Show
10:30 a.m."Our American Cousins" – Traditional Music
11:30 a.m."Golden Days Jubilee" – 19th Century Family Entertainment – Juggling, Illusions, Comedy
12:30 p.m. 19th Century Fashions
1:30 "Our American Cousins"
2:30 "Golden Days Jubilee"

Arnold House
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. 1830's Blab School On the hour and half hour (with the exception of 12 noon-1 p.m.)

Lincoln Home Neighborhood
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Trades/craftsmen, New Salem Militia, Surveyors, Morgan Horses

Lincoln Depot – 10th and Monroe Streets
4:30 p.m. Lincoln's Farewell Address

Lincoln Tomb
2:00 p.m. Band Concert – 33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment Band
3:00 p.m. Retreat Ceremony – 114th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry

City Arts Venue – 221 South 6th Street
10 a.m. – 4 p.m Looking for Lincoln Travel Expo and Scarecrows "Prairie Aires" - Traditional Music

Bank One
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Quilt Display and Quilting Demonstrations

OLD STATE CAPITOL

The Hall of Representatives
Saturday
10:00 a.m. "The Prairie Chickens" – Traditional Music
11:00 David Davis Mansion State Historic Site Program
12:00 noon "The Threshers" – Traditional Music
12:30 p.m. "Tad Lincoln's Father" Linda Schneider
1:00 "He Knew Lincoln" Don Russell
2:00 "Letters From a Civil War Wife" Cynda Wrightsman, Karl Bockmeier, Steve Staley
3:00Tracie Shaw - Singer

Sunday
10:00 a.m "The Prairie Chickens" – Traditional Music
11:00 Steve Staley and Dale Evans – Traditional Music
12:00 David Davis Mansion State Historic Site Program
1:00 "Tad Lincoln's Father" Linda Schneider
2:00 "He Knew Lincoln" Don Russell
3:00 "Bells in Motion" – Handbell Choir

10:00 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday – 4th Level – Video Room
Special first-day cancellation of a stamped envelope featuring a line drawing of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.


Old State Capitol Plaza

Tent Show
10:00 a.m. "Zeno's Carnival of Culture" 19th Century Family Entertainment, Medicine Show, Puppets, Comedy
10:30 "Tater Patch" Traditional Music
11:00 a.m. Dianne Moran - Storyteller
12:00 Noon "Tater Patch" Traditional Music
1:00 p.m. "Zeno's Carnival of Culture"
2:00 Dianne Moran
3:00 "Zeno's Carnival of Culture"
3:30 "Tater Patch"


Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices
12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Abraham Lincoln – November 5, 1858
10-3 p.m. Gibson Harris - Lincoln & Herndon's first law clerk



The State JOURNAL-REGISTER BUILDING – 313 South 6th Street

Children's Activities – 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
"Baroque Folk" - Traditional Music
10 a.m., 12 Noon, 2 and 3:30 p.m.
Theatrical Epitaphs from the Vandalia Cemetery Walk.
10:30 a.m., 12:30 and 2:30
New Salem Shape Note Singers – 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

[Greg Carter]

Wow. Hopefully I get to take in Zeno this time!

GMC

[Chris Gordy]

Yes Zeno's will be there! You'll have to come over and catch one of the shows. Then you may go home to your village and tell them of the culture you had seen.

[Robert Braun]

ALL interpreters from the OLRHS will be participating as part of the New Salem Militia... in a manner similar to our participation at the recent Lincoln's New Salem Militia muster. We will take our directions from Jim Patton, Don Ferricks, and others in the LNS heirarchy that may be in attendance.

Unless otherwise excused, all OLRHS members should be on-site at 8 a.m. each morning to assist with set-up and required chores. The miltia site will be a field just south of the Lincoln Home Conference Center. This field is located north of the Lincoln Home, on the Lincoln Home side of Eighth Street. The site is easily accessable from either visitor parking, or walking across Capitol Avenue through the pedestrian access areas onto Eighth Street. Vehicular traffic is prohibited at the Lincoln Home site unless prior arrangements are made through Lincoln's New Salem.

Program times are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday . Please plan on and dress for cold weather.

Also... I am informed that since this is a National Park Service site, there is to be no gunpowder--neither cartridges nor bulk powder in flasks or horns.

Finally, I am infomred that an excellent Appreciation Dinnner is being offered at 5 PM Saturday at the Center for the Arts, 420 South Sixth Street. I am informed this is within walking distance from the militia site, as are most of the attractions offered that weekend, including "Zeno's Carnival of Culture." Please let me know if you plan on attending this dinner, so I can send an accurate count to LNS. I need to know by Friday Nov. 8 to assure you a place!

Please contact me with your questions.

Bob
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[Greg Carter]

Sounds like good planning afoot here! I guess I will have to have Steve Irwin clean the catridges from my shot pouch!

GMC

[Laurel]

Rion and I are planning on attending.

Laurel

[Rusty Ayers]

Diane and I will be there. Bob, did you ever find out whether we get lodging on Friday night? Otherwise it's going to be quite a early morning on Saturday. If anybody has extra women's winter clothing, Diane could use something warm. She has the pattern and wool for a cloak but I doubt she will finish it in time since she hasn't even cut out the fabric yet.

[Robert Braun]

I re-checked the paperwork Phyllis provided. It mentions Friday and Saturday, so my impression is that BOTH nights are covered.

To be certain, I have telephoned Phyllis this morning--and will advise you of her response.

Bob.

[Chris Gordy]

Here's the weather report for the weekend.

Friday
Nov 15 Partly Cloudy 51°/35°

Saturday
Nov 16 Partly Cloudy 48°/35°

Sunday
Nov 17 Partly Cloudy 44°/31°

Monday
Nov 18 Partly Cloudy 43°/29°

[Robert Braun]

Rusty said:

Diane and I will be there. Bob, did you ever find out whether we get lodging on Friday night? Otherwise it's going to be quite a early morning on Saturday. If anybody has extra women's winter clothing, Diane could use something warm. She has the pattern and wool for a cloak but I doubt she will finish it in time since she hasn't even cut out the fabric yet.

Rusty, I have confirmed from the program coordinator that the hotel rooms are for TWO nights.

Also, I have called in a number for supper Saturday night--which includes both you and Lady Diane.

Sec'y Bob.

[Chris Gordy]

Just wanted to say that it was great to see everyone down in Springfield. Had a great time! We had a chance to walk by the "official" Lincoln Library on Monday afternoon. I noticed a lot of people in dark suits and their left hands on their ears looking at us as we walked around. Geez . . . like something important is happening or something.

[Robert Braun]

"Agent 3 to Agent 7."

"Agent 3 to Agent 7."

"Agent 7, watch the guy with the red cravat...repeat... the red cravat. He probably thinks that he's something out of a Mount painting or something."

"He's RIGHT of course, but we can't let this poor deluded person intrude on the farby character of so MANY Lincoln "interpreters."

"Wait... what is he doing?"

"He's reaching for the delectable Lady Bromley!"

"Agent 7... He's reaching..... He's reaching!!"

[Greg Carter]

You didn't see everyone there, Chris! I succeeded in missing Zeno yet again! Epithets do not describe my current predicament.

Pretty soon you all will think that I am simply some non-existent reenactor who reads this board simply for his own personal gain! ;D

But seriously, since you two are joking it must have been another good time. Sorry I missed it.

GMC

[Chris Gordy]

Ah . . . do not worry my friend. For Zeno and his band of cultured performers will soon be visiting all corners of the great Midwest. You will have your chance!

[Rusty Ayers]

All Hail the Great Zeno! I witnessed his art twice last weekend and I believe my 11-year-old niece took in four of the six shows. She was so impressed that she named her stuffed white tiger (an impulse gift from one of the circus vendors standing outside our hotel) "Zeno!" Perhaps it was an overdose of kerosene vapors that made her do it. She also got to meet and have her picture taken with Gov. Ryan's wife, who was coming out of the Lincoln Home visitors' center attended by her entourage (including a couple of those dark-suited earphone guys) as we were walking to our car. Luckily for me I wasn't carrying my gun at the time. Mrs. Ryan asked how we were enjoying the weekend and I made the appropriate exclamations of happiness and approval to help advance the careers of the Patton/Ferricks/Gordy/Golladay group since several of their respective bosses were lurking in the background. Another Brush With Greatness was meeting CNN anchor Bernard Shaw (keynoter at the library opening) when I was checking out of the hotel on Sunday AM. But Zeno was still the highlight and I intend to tell everyone at the diggings of the culture I have seen.

Other cool event highlights:
-Splitting a rail
-Braun retaining his "sergeant for life" status (what does it say about Illinoisans that the only man they want in command is from Wisconsin?
-Watching Miss Laurel's striptease show... twice
-drinking beer with Braun, Miss Laurel, Zeno and Ensign Scuttleton Friday night... and Bob picked up the tab (thanks Bob)
-Finally finishing the bottle of Port we had been working on all season (it will be replenished, with interest, in time for the ARF Christmas program)

Since all the event sites were downtown, everything was very centralized and within a 3-4 block walk. I believe I will demand 1st class hotel accomodations at all the future events I attend. It was a quite a change from sleeping on the hard puncheon floor and throwing additional logs into the fire every couple of hours, as I had to do at New Salem two weeks previous. Actually, when I think about it, my sleeping accomodations have gotten successively better: sleeping with Braun under a tent cloth in a 40-knot gale (Garfield), sleeping on a hard floor in a cabin next to a fire (New Salem), sleeping on an inner-spring mattress on the 10th floor of a hotel (Springfield). Next time I will demand a full suite and a king-size bed. Only the best for Zeno's new publicist!

I spoke with Dave Blanchette, the IHPA's Chief of Public Information, who said there will likely be a repeat event (possibly a much larger one) in Springfield when the Lincoln Museum opens in the summer/fall of 2004. I suggested that the next event feature a torchlight parade from the Lincoln Home to the Library/Museum complex, including a big whomping political rally. He thought that was a great idea and was going to pass it along to the bosses. This would have to be an 1860s-period timeline, but I'll bet we could form an 1830s parade group to celebrate Lincoln's militia service. 1860s guys reenacting the 1830s... hmm, that's a concept.

Thanks to Mary and Laurel for lending some warm clothes to Diane and Ashley. We never did get Ashley to play dress-up with us but she had a great time.