Abraham Lincoln Association offers 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial calendar

[October 22, 2008]  SPRINGFIELD -- Fourteen photographs of Abraham Lincoln sculptures from throughout Illinois are featured in a special 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial calendar, "Lincoln in Illinois," published by the Abraham Lincoln Association.

The calendars are 7 by 14 inches when opened and feature 12 black-and-white, 7-by-7-inch photos taken by Illinois photographer Ron Schramm.

The calendars can be purchased for $8 each and are available at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Prairie Archives in Springfield, the McLean County Museum of History, and other retailers. The calendar may be previewed and order forms are available at www.abrahamlincolnassociation.org. [To download Adobe Acrobat Reader for the PDF file, click here.]

Sales of the calendar help fund special events planned for the February 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial. The 2009 "Lincoln in Illinois" calendar features the Lincoln sculptures listed below.

[Text from Abraham Lincoln Association file received from the Illinois Office of Communication and Information]

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Month	Location	Artist, year created
Cover	Grant Park, Chicago	Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1926
December 2008	Lincoln Pak, Chicago	Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1887
January 2009	Macon County Historical Museum, Decatur	John W. McClarey, 2004
February	Union Square Park, Springfield	John W. McClarey, 2006
March	Lincoln Trail Memorial, Lawrence County	Nellie Verne Walker, 1938
April	Old State Capitol Grounds, Vandalia	John W. McClarey, 2001
May	Carle Park, Urbana	Lorado Taft, 1927
June	Washington Square Park, Ottawa	Rebecca Childers Caleel, 2002
July	Lincoln's New Salem, Petersburg	Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington, 1963
August	McLean County Museum of History, Bloomington	Rick Harney, 2000
September	Senn Park, Chicago	Charles Keck, 1997
October	Lincoln Tomb, Springfield	Gutzon Borglum, 1930
November	Millikin University, Decatur	Fred M. Torrey, 1948
December	Ravenswood's Lincoln Square, Chicago	Avard Fairbanks, 1956