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Book on Oak Ridge Cemetery
10-22-2013, 08:15 PM
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Book on Oak Ridge Cemetery
One of the highlights of the recent trip to Springfield included getting my copy of Joe Di Cola's book on the Chicago World's Fair autographed and personalized. It has a place of honor on my shelves.

Another highlight was going through Oak Ridge Cemetery and seeing other graves besides Lincoln's. The same publishers who brought out Joe's wonderful book also published one on Oak Ridge Cemetery. The authors are Edward J. Russo and Curtis R. Mann. Curt Mann and I go way back (we're both from the same small town). He works for the Springfield Public Library and is an excellent historian in his own right. There are a number of pictures of the cemetery in the 1860s as well as of the Lincoln tomb. It is well worth your time.

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Rob

Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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Book on Oak Ridge Cemetery - Rob Wick - 10-22-2013 08:15 PM
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