http://http://www.kentucky.com/765/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Kentucky.com en-us Copyright 2008 Kentucky.com Lincoln Bicentennial 60 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:15:06 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's Workbench webmaster@kentucky.com http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/486225.html http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/486225.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:56 EDT
An 8,000-square-foot display called Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln will be divided into areas which explore his life from his birth on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin to his ascension to the White House.

It also traces his struggles in office as he sought to end slavery and bring a halt to the Civil War.

The fair opens Thursday and runs through Aug. 25. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/474609.html http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/474609.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:28 EDT
Next February, McCorvey will, in fact, take the multifaceted show to the Kennedy Center.

On Tuesday morning in the Kentucky Capitol rotunda, Gov. Steve Beshear and lawmakers including U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler joined McCorvey and co-producer Virginia Carter to announce that Our Lincoln will be presented at the venerable Washington venue on Feb. 2, a week and a half before the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth.

In lauding the event, officials emphasized the first word of the program's title: our. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306591.html http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306591.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:04 EST
So which of the three states has the strongest claim to Abraham Lincoln, the beloved U.S. president whose 1809 birth will be marked with two years of bicentennial events starting Feb. 11 and 12 in Louisville and Hodgenville?

"Every one of these three places has a different and equally valid claim in terms of where he hailed from," said James M. McPherson, author of 1988's Battle Cry of Freedom , a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Civil War.

"Kentucky can claim his birthplace, and so that gives them certain bragging rights," McPherson said. "And I suppose Indiana would make the point that his formative years were spent there and that's where he got most of what little education he got. But then Illinois would say, 'Well, this is where he spent most of his adult life and this is where he achieved prominence.'"

The question was one of many that trailed students from Centre College in Danville who spent three days on a kind of cross-state Lincoln quest last month. The group visited the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site near Hodgenville, and then traveled to various Lincoln-related sites in Springfield, Ill.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306592.html http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306592.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:07 EST
The work for orchestra and narrator is one of the signature compositions about our nation's 16th president. But it is hardly the only artistic comment on Honest Abe.

In the near century-and-a-half since Abraham Lincoln's death, in 1865, he has been portrayed on stage and in music by many artists from many angles.

That's appropriate, says Illinois State Historian Tom Schwartz.

"Growing up on the frontier, he was not in a cultural mecca," Schwartz says. "But he quickly gravitated toward books, and he was steeped in the classics," including the Bible, Aesop's Fables and Pilgrim's Progress. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306593.html http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306593.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:07 EST
We're here to talk about the Weekly World News variety of Lincoln myths, the slime festering at the bottom of the Lincoln barrel.

For example: Did you hear the one about the similarities between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations?

Was all that up-by-the-bootstraps list of Lincoln's failures true?

Was Lincoln gay?]]> http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306578.html http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306578.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:05 EST
Hodgenville (Lincoln's birthplace), Louisville and several other cities had planned celebrations, but not Lexington.

A talk with University of Kentucky Opera Theatre director Everett McCorvey took care of that.

"The Humanities Council had given support to the new opera River of Time ," Smith says, referring to the work being composed by Joseph Baber that will be premiered by UK Opera Theatre next year.

McCorvey suggested a few scenes from the opera, a performance of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait and some selections by the American Spiritual Ensemble, which he directs. Voil , an event was forming.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306594.html http://www.kentucky.com/765/story/306594.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:05 EST
President Bush

"I spent a lot of time reading about Abraham Lincoln," Bush told ABC News on Nov. 20. "Abraham Lincoln had no earthly idea that the Gettysburg Address was a great speech. All he knew is after having given it, he was condemned by a press corps that thought the person that preceded him was much better. Because it, it, because of the length that his, of his predecessor's speech. You know, history, it's just, it, I, I've always felt that there needs to be a long leash to history. That you can't judge a administration, immediately. And, particularly one that has pushed hard for some big ideas, like, like, my administration has done."

Mitt Romney

"And if I'm lucky enough to be elected president of this country and I take that oath of office, there will be no higher promise than to abide by the Constitution and the rule of law," he told ABC News in February 2007. "That's Abraham Lincoln's political religion."]]>