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Lincoln Museum - Mark MacKenzie - 12-12-2012 05:18 PM
I didn't know where to post this...
This Tuesday I spent a very rainy day at the Lincoln Museum in Harrogate, Tennessee, on the campus of Lincoln Memorial University, which is very close to the Cumberland Gap, a very beautiful section of East TN. almost due north of Knoxville.
The Curator was very kind and we had a great chat. I was able to see close up one of the Volk Life Masks.
There is a B&B that dates to 1700's called the Mill in Cumberland Gap which is a great place to stay.
Highly recommended.
RE: Lincoln Museum - Craig Hipkins - 12-12-2012 10:03 PM
Mark,
Sounds interesting!Next time that I am in Knoxville (in a couple of months) I will have to check it out.
Craig
RE: Lincoln Museum - LincolnMan - 12-13-2012 09:03 AM
Mark: I love that museum and the whole Cumberland Gap area! The museum has roots with O.O. Howard-concerning a remark Lincoln made to him about the loyal people of that part of Tennessee. I have also stayed at that B & B+ in the Daniel Boone Room. Its on my all-time top five places to stay.
RE: Lincoln Museum - Mark MacKenzie - 12-13-2012 10:48 AM
Craig, its a little bit of a drive up I-75 then East on 25 (I think.) It takes an hour or so and beautiful scenery.
Bill, the curator told me that during the war, the area was decidedly pro-Union. When the college began in 1897 after the war, the area had become very much pro-Confederate and anything "Lincoln" was controversial. I didn't see any Confederate battle flags like I do around Nashville, though.
Funny, Bill, I stayed in that room, too. Its great!
There is a beautiful National Park there as well.
RE: Lincoln Museum - LincolnMan - 12-13-2012 10:53 AM
That Daniel Boone Room is really interesting to get too, isn't it? Especially, if you have some luggage! The building was once the home of a Confederate officer. I didn't see any Confederate battle flags around there either. And speaking of those flags-I recently saw two of them on tall metal poles flying here in Michigan-I don't see that very often!