Extra Credit Questions

[davg2000]

Well stated. I would like to think that growing into Lincoln happens because somewhere along the way-like in school- a seed has bern planted in a young person’s mind about him. More and more I am not seeing that the seed was planted.

I live in central Illinois, where everyone knows Lincoln. But at ALPLM I see kids from all over. Often they are students who show up on a school trip well taught, focused, and using the trip to help complete an assignment. That's one extreme. The other is that there are plenty of kids who are ignorant of some basic Lincoln facts. I'm often asked, "Why did Booth shoot Lincoln?" (An intelligent question.) And I also see teenagers who stare at the figure of Booth going into Lincoln's theater box and have no clue what his name is.