Thanks, John! What wonderful photos! Looks like quite a crowd and the rain seems to have stopped.....thank goodness.

Great talking to you last night!

Thank you to Angela for sending this photo! It was taken from inside Ford's Theatre last night. The Petersen House can also be seen.

Wow!! What a NEAT photo! Thanks -

(04-15-2015 06:29 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Wow!! What a NEAT photo! Thanks -

Looks absolutely overwhelming!!! Thanks also for being our "reporters" - as great as it must be to witness this I would panic in between such a mass of people and mass event! It's great y'all let us participate and get the "feeling" and excitement from all you post.

(04-15-2015 06:29 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Thank you to Angela for sending this photo! It was taken from inside Ford's Theatre last night. The Petersen House can also be seen.

What a great photo! Ha, I was going to write "great shot" and thought better of it. Too soon. :-)

Quote:What a great photo! Ha, I was going to write "great shot" and thought better of it. Too soon. :-)

HA! John, you crack me up!

(04-14-2015 01:34 PM)Rsmyth Wrote:  Uhmmm! Jim Garrett is driving the trolley around. Maybe he can video using his phone.

Sorry, I'm off today, and my flip phone from 2001 is only a phone.

Thank you to Jim Garrett for sending this photo. It was taken this morning at 7:22 A.M. Photo credit goes to Jim's friend, Chris Hunter.

Are there any similar commemorational events/celebrations in other places and states, or just in DC?

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(04-15-2015 07:47 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Thank you to Jim Garrett for sending this photo. It was taken this morning at 7:22 A.M. Photo credit goes to Jim's friend, Chris Hunter.

Thanks for sending this, Jim!!!

Thank you to Angela for these photos from this morning.

Angela writes, "Washington's Motto today is: sleep is overrated!"

I am glad to see your weather is good, i.e. it's obviously not raining, as this fear came up before! Is it very cold?

Wow! I am a bit surprised and impressed by the size of the crowd.
Great photo's and thanks.

it is chiily but not cold. the crowds are unbelievable and it was busy all night, some less people around 3am. but when we wentto see the exhibit at 5 it was already packed again.
Roger, if I emailed you a video, would you be able to post that?

I can try. I will be home for another hour or so.

I sent it, maybe it will work!

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I am way too excited for sleep, so I thought I write up a little from last night and this morning for all those that could not come.
Sorry for the long post and maybe mistakes but I have been awake for 36 hours now.

I meet up with David George at the early evening and the area around Fords was more crowded than usually, but by no means packed yet. We went to see the Commemoration and while leaving the theatre, I pulle away the curtain at the dress circle and saw the thousands of people on the street. That was an incredible goosebumb moment!

The Commemoration itself was worth the trip! It was beautifully done, no cheap shocker moments but very solemn remembrance with
lots of wonderful music, poetry and many, many Lincoln quotes.
A great surprise to the audience was Colin Powell who did the introductions.
At around 10:15, Judy Collins took the stage and sang "Beautiful Dreamer" and then "Amazing Graze". She had all of audience join in and it went on for quite a while.
(here is a link to some audio that should not exist because it was not allowed to record, but alas, I guess it found its way to the internte: http://allthingslincoln.tumblr.com/post/...-i-wanted)

The band inside started then to play "Old Hundreth" and when they were half way through they stopped and the band outside of Fords picked it up. The audience then made their way outside to join all the people that were already waiting.
The staff at Fords had given candles out and stepping through the door was a breathtaking experience.
They really did an amazing job!