Abraham Lincoln's Birthday

[RJNorton]

In honor of Lincoln's Birthday, Joe Di Cola sent the following:

"Years ago on Lincoln's birthday, the Chicago Tribune front page would usually have a Joseph Parrish cartoon honoring Lincoln. This practice seems to have ended sometime around or just after the celebration of the birth sesquicentennial--an event so well-celebrated that I have an entire bookshelf of books, pamphlets, etc. from that event. This was a marked contrast to the almost non-event of the birth bicentennial, with the exception of the publications of Michael Burlingame's definitive biography. Today is Lincoln's birthday and hardly any notice is given. I thought you would like to see a few of the images in my collection of the Tribune front page from the mid-1950s."

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Thank you, Joe! You are absolutely correct - Vicki and I watched the morning news, and there was no mention at all that today is Lincoln's Birthday.