“Lincoln, Drawn from Life: Five Artists, Six Portraits,”
Lincoln Room, John Hay Library, Brown University
Open to public, call for appointments 401.863.1515

2009
Rhode Island Historical Society’s Rhode Island in the Time of Lincoln exhibit, Woonsocket Museum of Work and Culture, Woonsocket, RI. For more information, please visit www.rihs.org

September 12-13, 2009
Civil War Battle Re-enactment and Living history
Chase Farm Park, Hearthside House
As a special feature on Saturday, Sept. 12th, there will be a mock press conference at 12:15 p.m. at the historic Hearthside Homestead with our Abraham Lincoln interpreter, Phillip Chetwynd, being interviewed by Chief Justice Frank Williams. Press will be invited as well as spectators from the event. The year will be 1864. At the conclusion of the press conference at 1:00, President Lincoln will draw the winner of the raffle for "Dinner with the President" that will take place that evening in the Union Commander's Tent in the encampment. President Lincoln will be present throughout the weekend, reviewing the troops, talking with spectators, and also delivering a speech on Sunday morning at 11:30. For more information and a full schedule of events, visit the Hearthside website at www.hearthsidehouse.org
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September 12, 2009
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Sprague Mansion Gala, Cranston, RI

January 18, 2010, 4pm
Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, with keynote speaker, Chief Justice Frank J. Williams (Ret.), Ebenezer Baptist Church, Cranston St., Cranston, RI

February 12, 2010-March 12, 2010
Gilder Lehrman Institute Exhibition "Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, a Man for All Times", Rhode Island State House, Bell Room (open to public)

February 24, 2010; 10am
Ceremony of Celebration for the Gilder Lehrman Institute Exhibition "Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, a Man for All Times", Rhode Island State House, Bell Room with guest speakers, students, Providence Brigade Band, etc

May 15, 2010, 9:30am-3:30pm
Travel by Train with Abraham Lincoln on His Visit to the Blackstone Valley
Train departs from Providence Amtrak station.
For tickets and more information, please visit, www.tourblackstone.com
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September 4, 2009-May 2011
Lincoln Family Home Exhibit, featuring John Hay Library's McLellan Lincoln Collection at Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home in Manchester, VT. The artifacts will be part of an exhibit opening on Saturday, September 5, 2009 entitled "The American Ideal: Abraham Lincoln and the Second Inaugural." The Second Inaugural is considered one of Lincoln's greatest speeches, and the exhibit aims to demonstrate how Lincoln helped bring life and meaning to the promise of the American ideal of equality, justice, and opportunity for all.

For more information, please visit, http://blogs.brown.edu/project/libnews/archives/2009/09/lincoln_family.html