Your personal choice of actors who have portrayed Lincoln

[Joe Di Cola]

Herb, it is funny how we never hear our own "accents"--when I lived in Fargo for 28 years, people said I had an accent. I never thought Chicagoans had an accent, except for hizzoner the mayor and a few Catholic high school girls who attended Longwood (pronounced by them as LAWNGwood--with apologoies to my former elemntary school classmates!). However, when I moved back to the Chicago area for a while, 2001-2005, I noticed that Chicagoans DO have a discernible accent! I now live in southwestern Ohio and notice a slight "southern" inflection. That's what makes the USA so great--all of the diversity--even the regional "accents." By the way, it is great to read your posts again; I missed them after the ALO site closed its blog section.