Lincoln Day 2009
Feb. 13th, 2009 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardIt was a wonderful day.
At the Lincoln Day luncheon at the Union League, Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo made some pointed remarks about Lincoln's attitude toward entitlements, based on excerpts from his own writings and speeches.
Then we formed up for a parade from the League House to Independence Hall, where a young student read the text of Lincoln's speech, delivered there on February 22, 1861 prior to the raising of the American flag. A flag was raised by members of the U. S. Colored Troop 3rd Infantry Regiment (reenactors), and a fragment of the actual flag raised on that day in 1861 was displayed.
My colleague Beth De George from the Union League Library was working on a Flat Stanley project for her grandson, so I enabled that.
Here's a word cloud of Lincoln's speech:
At the Lincoln Day luncheon at the Union League, Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo made some pointed remarks about Lincoln's attitude toward entitlements, based on excerpts from his own writings and speeches.
Then we formed up for a parade from the League House to Independence Hall, where a young student read the text of Lincoln's speech, delivered there on February 22, 1861 prior to the raising of the American flag. A flag was raised by members of the U. S. Colored Troop 3rd Infantry Regiment (reenactors), and a fragment of the actual flag raised on that day in 1861 was displayed.
My colleague Beth De George from the Union League Library was working on a Flat Stanley project for her grandson, so I enabled that.
Here's a word cloud of Lincoln's speech:
