Back in 1983, our family visited Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home near Spencer, Indiana. Here are Ana, Josh and Hadley sitting on the door stoop and exploring the cabin and grounds. I think Doug may be doing an impersonation of old Abe himself!
I am just now finishing "Abraham Lincoln, Great American Historians on our Sixteenth President." I have discovered how popular Lincoln was in his own time and became even more popular since. Yet he has his detractors who chide him for being racist in his time. I come away very impressed with his intellect, his ambition, his leadership and his ability to take on the weight of the world during the years of the Civil War. You can see in the lines of his face the physical toll that the presidency wrought from his body. He was not perfect but he did indeed save the union and the United States as we know it is all the better for it.
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." from the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.
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