She first did her First Painting of Abraham Lincoln in 1983. Since then, she has focused on Abraham Lincoln as her subject and has made many paintings of different styles which people talk about. Been active, being , had hered by cnn paintings in the historical society, along with some other people you might have heard of. Salvador dali, he was there too. Norman rockwell, robert rauschenberg. Certainly in very good company. Sheddition to all of this, lives in gettysburg and has a gallery up there. She is also very active with the fellowship of pennsylvania. At the end well talk about the lincoln fellowship and her hundred nights of taps, a program that she runs in pennsylvania. Please welcome wendy allen. [applause] before i begin, i would like to thank david. I made his life miserable today with this technology. All weekend all weekend, sorry. It is an entire multimedia presentation with video and everything. Im surprised she is still talking to be. Thank you. Take you, john as well.
Ms. Allen concludes the program by discussing 100 nights, held at gettysburg cemetery. District of columbia host this had event. As has made many, many, many painti paintings she also has been very active, being interviewed by cnn and had her paintings on in the Historical Society along with some other people you might have heard of, salvador dolly. He was there, too. In addition to all of this, she has a gallery up there, lincoln into art and shes also very active with the fellowship of pennsylvania. Shes on the board and Vice President of pennsylvania and also very active in the lincoln forum. A lot of us went this past year. I think we had a record turnout for the Lincoln Group going to the lincoln forum. Were going to try to beat that record this year in november. Wendy is involved in all of those. Tonight shes going to talk about her time talking about is going to talk about her lincoln art and maybe a little bit more than that, plus i think at the end well talk about the lincoln
Weekend. The Lincoln Group of the district of columbia hosted this event. Our speaker tonight is wendy allen. Most people in the room know who wendy allen is. For those who dont, shes an artist. Wendy allen first painted did her First Painting of Abraham Lincoln in 1983. Since then shes focussed on him as her subject and has made many, many paintings in many different styles. Shes listen very active, been interviewed by cnn and had her paintings in the Historical Society along with some other people you might have heard of. Salvador dolly, norman rockwell. Certainly in very good company and so were they. In addition to all this, she lives in gettysburg and has a gallery up there, lincoln into art. Shes also very active with the fellowship of pennsylvania. Shes on the board and a Vice President to the fellowship of pennsylvania. Shes also very active in the Lincoln Forum and a lot of us went there this past year. We had a record turn out. Were going to try to beat that record this year
We come to gettysburg every november to commemorate the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. Our first speaker this morning is peter carmichael. Peter is the professor of civil war studies and director of the Civil War Institute at gettysburg college. I have seen some cwi hats around, wonderful to see them. He has a phd in history from penn state university, where he had the good fortune to study under gary gallagher. He is the author or editor of five books, including last generation Young Virginians in peace, war, and reunion, published in 2005. He is also one of the series editors for a civil war series, and i know him best in this capacity. He was my editor and i can tell you his thoughtfulness, careful attention to detail and generosity with sources made my book a better book. Today, he will tell us about his most recent book, the war for the common soldier, which was released in 2018 as part of the prestigious littlefield series with unc press. A review recently concluded, it is a
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