Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 2009
 
Events
November 20, 2007
Press conference, 10am, State Room, Rhode Island State House


January 2, 2008 - March 5, 2008
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial exhibit, McLellan Lincoln Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/exhibits/index.php

February 1, 2008 - February 28, 2009
"Lincoln, Drawn from Life: Five Artist, Six Portraits", John Hay Library, Brown University, please call for appointment 401-863-3723, hay@brown.edu

February 5, 2008, 7 - 8:15pm
"A Visit and Conversation with Honest Abe a Monologue by and Conversation with Him", Jamestown Philomenian Library, Meeting Hall, Jamestown, RI

February 12, 2008, 7pm
"Honest Abe" one-man play, Portsmouth Abbey School, Portsmouth, RI

February 17, 2008, 1:30pm - 4pm
The President Abraham Lincoln-Mary Todd Lincoln High Tea at the Governor Sprague Mansion, Cranston, RI

February 19, 2008, 5:30 - 7:30pm
"John Hay's Lincoln" Friends of the Brown University Library event, open to the public; Lownes Room, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI

February 2008 - February 2009
Weekly Lincoln "Minute" Narratives, Channel 12, CBS and Cox, Providence, RI

April 1, 2008 - June 15, 2008
"The Politics of Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Public Memory of Abraham Lincoln"
John D. Rockefeller Library, Brown University, Providence, RI
http://blogs.brown.edu/project/libnews/archives/2008/04/the_politics_of.html

May 22, 2008, 6:00pm
"Prepared to Do My Whole Duty": Elisha Hunt Rhodes in War & Peace exhibit, with speaker, Mark Dunkelman of the Civil War Roundtable: Rhode Island Historical Society, Aldrich House, 110 Benevolent St. Providence, RI

Spring 2008
Restoration of the Abraham Lincoln monument in Roger Williams Park in Providence, RI

June 30, 2008 - July 3, 2008 - Registration Form (PDF)
Teachers' Abraham Lincoln Institute at Roger Williams University
Teachers' Summer Institute on Abraham Lincoln and the Law at the Rhode Island Supreme Court

June 30, 2008 - July 3, 2008
Teachers' Abraham Lincoln Institute at Roger Williams University
Teachers' Summer Institute on Abraham Lincoln and the Law at the Rhode Island Supreme Court

July 20, 2008, 1 pm
Lincoln’s War Governor Takes Command Celebration, Sprague Mansion, Cranston, RI

September 13, 2008
Lincoln Visits Rhode Island, A Sprague Mansion Celebration, Cranston, RI

Fall 2008 - Spring 2009
Abraham Lincoln Curriculum in Rhode Island Schools

January 5, 2009 - March 6, 2009
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial exhibit, McLellan Lincoln Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI

February 20 & 21, 2009
Lincoln Symposium, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI

February 28, 2009 8 pm
Rhode Island Philharmonic performance of A Lincoln Portrait, by Aaron Copland

September 12, 2009
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Sprague Mansion Gala, Cranston, RI

Fall 2009
Rhode Island Historical Society's Rhode Island in the Time of Lincoln exhibit, Woonsocket Museum of Work and Culture

 

For questions on all events, please call Lisa Maher at 401-222-8661.