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June 2, historic interpreters portraying Abraham Lincoln, Mary
Lincoln and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant will appear at the ALPLM as part
of the city-wide “History Comes Alive” program. Visitors get to meet
the historic characters, chat with them about life in the past and
pose for pictures.
They will appear Wednesday through Saturday each week.
The ALPLM’s music line-up includes the Lincoln Troubadours vocal
group, the Springfield Municipal Band, and a string quintet
performing music written especially for the museum’s new exhibit
“Here I Have Lived: Home in Illinois” by Randy Erwin. In addition,
the ALPLM will continue to offer Erwin’s frequent acoustic
performances of music from Lincoln’s era.
“History can be fun and accessible. One way to achieve that is
giving folks a chance to interact with figures from the past.
Another is letting them hear the same music that filled the air 150
years ago,” said Christina Shutt, executive director of the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
The schedule for the historic
interpreters is:
Wednesdays
General Grant: 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Mary Lincoln: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
President Lincoln: 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Thursdays
President Lincoln: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Fridays
General Grant: 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
President Lincoln: 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Mary Lincoln: 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Saturdays
President Lincoln: Noon-2:00 p.m.
Mary Lincoln: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
The Lincoln Troubadours will perform in the museum’s main plaza on
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays throughout the summer. The Thursday
and Saturday performances are 1-1:30 p.m. The Friday performances
are noon-12:30 p.m.
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The string quintet will perform music from “Here I
Have Lived” on:
Saturday, June 3, 11:00 a.m.
Sunday, June 4, 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 6, 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, June 10, 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 18, 1:00 p.m.
Friday, June 23, 1:00 p.m.
Monday, June 26, 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 27, 1:30 p.m.
The Springfield Muni Band performs outside the museum on Saturdays
at 10 a.m. The band will play on June 10 and then July 1, 8, 15 and
29.
History Comes Alive is a party of a city-wide event
through Visit Springfield Illinois. Check out more events and
opportunities at
www.
VisitSpringfieldIllinois.com/Historycomes
alive.
The ALPLM will also help provide connections to the fascinating
Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site, near Petersburg. The
presidential library’s Union Station (500 E. Madison Street) will be
the departure point for a History Comes Alive shuttle taking
visitors to New Salem. Every Saturday morning from June 4 through
Aug. 6, the van will depart at 8:30 a.m. and return visitors to the
same spot about 11:30 a.m.
The mission of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum is to inspire civic engagement through the
diverse lens of Illinois history and sharing with the world the life
and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. We pursue this mission through a
combination of rigorous scholarship and high-tech showmanship built
on the bedrock of the ALPLM’s unparalleled collection of historical
materials – roughly 13 million items from all eras of Illinois
history.
For more information, visit
www.PresidentLincoln.illinois.gov.
[Christopher Wills]
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