Lincoln Birthday Event

[David Lockmiller]

I still have those scrapbooks and go through the first one every February 12. And on that day I always watch the film based on Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Sherwood was also one of FDR's speechwriters.

Joe

The 1939 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama

For the original American play, performed in New York, which shall best represent in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage, preferably dealing with American life, $1,000.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by Robert E. Sherwood