Gettysburg Address on display at the ALPLM

[Steve]

If any of you live near the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum this might be worth seeing (Nov. 15 - 24):

https://977wmoi.com/2024/11/abraham-linc...g-address/

[David Lockmiller]

(11-10-2024 09:20 PM)Steve Wrote:  If any of you live near the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum this might be worth seeing (Nov. 15 - 24):

https://977wmoi.com/2024/11/abraham-linc...g-address/

Abraham Lincoln was not the primary speaker at the November 19, 1863, dedication of a national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa. He was simply asked to deliver "a few appropriate remarks." The main speaker was Edward Everett, one the nation’s best orators. Everett later wrote Lincoln that, “I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”

[STS Lincolnite]

(11-10-2024 09:20 PM)Steve Wrote:  If any of you live near the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum this might be worth seeing (Nov. 15 - 24):

https://977wmoi.com/2024/11/abraham-linc...g-address/

And the Hay Copy of the Gettysburg address, I believe, is still on display at the Library of Congress as part of this exhibit:

https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/treasure...xhibition/

The Nicolay Copy of the Gettysburg Address was on display earlier in the year as part of this same exhibit and was then rotated out, replaced by the Hay.