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LINCOLN CHOSE LOUISIANA - Louisiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission February 4-15 WEDNESDAY 4th - Richard White, “Lincoln’s Leadership”
EBRP Main Library, Goodwood Boulevard, 7:00 pm
SATURDAY 7th - “Abraham Lincoln: Birth of a New Freedom,” documentary movie; discussion with Dr. Charles Vincent.
Baker Library, 10:00 am - “Lincoln Lives,” a new play by historian Kent Gramm, music by Professor Bill Grimes.
Magnolia Mound, Nicholson Drive, 1:00 pm
SUNDAY 8th - Reverend Chris Andrews, First United Methodist Church, Sermon on Lincoln (televised).
930 North Boulevard, 8:30 &11:00 am - Reverend Steve Crump, Unitarian Church, scene from “Lincoln Lives,” with Steve Crump and Oneal Isaac. 8470 Goodwood Boulevard, 9:30 & 11:15
- Ten Major Louisiana Poets Reading Poems by and about Lincoln.
Louisiana State Library, 4th Street, 2:00 pm
MONDAY 9th - “Lincoln and Bolivar as Emancipators,” LSU System President John V. Lombardi and Professor James Stoner, “Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, and the Declaration of Independence”
Memorial Tower, LSU, 10:30am - Sadie Roberts-Joseph, Director, a dramatic reading from Elizabeth Keckley’s “Behind The Scenes: 30 years a Slave and 4 Years in the White House.”
Odell Williams Now and Then Museum of African American History, 6:00 pm
TUESDAY 10th - “Louisiana Looks at Lincoln,” Exhibit. Featured are first public showings of a rare photograph and Ed Pramuk’s commissioned portrait of Lincoln.
Louisiana State Archives, Essen Lane, 1:00 pm - “Who Was Lincoln, In Popular Culture, Literature, and Documentary Evidence?" Prof. Wayne Binning.
Baton Rouge Community College, Human Resources Conference Room, Governors’ Building, 10:00 am
WEDNESDAY 11th
No Events THURSDAY 12th - Annual African American Read-In. David Madden reading Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Children and family members are invited to share a poem or prose from an African American author.
Main Library, Goodwood Avenue, 2:30 - Major birthday celebration program:
State Capitol steps at 3:00 pm- Charles de Gravelles reads poems by and about Lincoln, including a new poem by himself.
- Recognition of winners of student essay contest.
- Recognition of Glasgow Middle School class that initiated the national Children’s Lincoln Penny Power Campaign.
- Formal presentation of Live the Legacy, the commemorative book published by the national Lincoln Commission.
- James Stoner, Chair Political Science, LSU, brief remarks on “Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, and the Declaration of Independence”
- Reading of Governor Bobby Jindal’s Lincoln Year Proclamation.
- Reading of Mayor Melvin “Kip” Holden’s Lincoln Year Proclamation.
- Reading of President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address by Secretary of State Jay Dardenne.
- “Mr. Lincoln’s House.” Children, ages 6 and up, will hear the Emancipation Proclamation and then construct a log house from Lincoln Logs. Ages 6 and up.
Bluebonnet Library, 3:30 pm
SATURDAY 14TH - Annual African American Read-In. David Madden reading Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Children and family members are invited to share a poem or prose from an African American author.
Main Library, Goodwood Avenue, 2:30
SUNDAY 15th - “Louisiana Looks at Lincoln,” Exhibit and special reception.
Louisiana State Archives, 3851 Essen Lane, 1:00
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