Comments on: Springfield, IL: Part I – Overview

By: Springfield, IL: Part VI – Lincoln Tomb and Miscellaneous Statuary « Bull Runnings

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:02:21 +0000

[...] 2010 On October 9-12 this year my family and I visited Springfield, IL (see overview of the trip here). On the 11th, we visited The Lincoln Tomb in Springfield’s Oak Hill Cemetery. [...]

By: Springfield, IL: Part V – The Abraham Lincoln Presidential (Library and) Museum « Bull Runnings

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:13:13 +0000

[...] the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL (see overview of the trip here). The ALPLM complex is located only a few blocks from our hotel, and comes under the purview of [...]

By: Springfield, IL: Part IV – Old State Capitol « Bull Runnings

Springfield, IL: Part IV – Old State Capitol « Bull Runnings — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:19:22 +0000

[...] year my family and I visited the Old State Capitol in Springfield, IL (see overview of the trip here). After our tour of the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices, we walked across Adams Street to the state [...]

By: Springfield, IL: Part III – Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices « Bull Runnings

Springfield, IL: Part III – Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices « Bull Runnings — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:43:38 +0000

[...] family and I visited the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices in Springfield, IL (see overview of the trip here). After our tour of the Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site, we headed to 6th and Adams [...]

By: Springfield, IL: Part II – Lincoln Home « Bull Runnings

Springfield, IL: Part II – Lincoln Home « Bull Runnings — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:42:13 +0000

[...] and I visited the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, IL (see overview of the trip here). We started at the visitor center (VC), which has a scale model of Springfield as Lincoln knew [...]

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:51:21 +0000

A good book on places associated with Lincoln that I meant to mention in my last post is ‘Following in Lincoln’s Footsteps’ by Ralph Gary. Gary has all the places in Illinois covered plus a excellent map and breakdown of the Springfield cemetery. Also. other sites associated with Lincoln throughout the United States are well covered. I purchased the book this year after reading a review of it by Nick Kurtz and I have to say the book is well worth the money as it makes for very interesting reading for all Lincoln buffs.
Thanks,
Chris

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:56:49 +0000

Thanks Mike. Your tips were great. The seafood house was actually in an old house – can’t remember the name just now. I wasn’t aware of t-shirts at the bookstore, though we did pick up a few at the ALPLM for $4 each!

By: TheThe Abraham Lincoln Observer

TheThe Abraham Lincoln Observer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:41:36 +0000

Ohhhh, man, I’d forgotten that was the weekend of the big downtown power outage. I was off, but I’m told that, here at The State Journal-Register (‘Always Abe’s Friend’), our backup generator failed to kick in as well. I guess there was trepidation for at least a while about just how we were going to get the paper out.

Sounds like you had a good time — and I’m particularly glad the Prairie Archives visit was a success (no T-shirts, tho?) — but I’ll apologize on behalf of the city for the outage and on behalf of the state for the Tomb. Please do come back; we’ll try not to let it all happen again.

I’m looking forward to your further installments.

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:36:00 +0000

Great post! Love seeing these photos of Lincoln’s hometown. What great history!
Chris

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:26:26 +0000

Thanks Frances.