State in history. Good evening and welcome tonight history and for those of you are not familiar with the history on path, the series what we have been doing for the last two years now, congratulations on her anniversary guys climactic and thank you. Which we get each other. Yes bear, that sounds good and works pretty so joe and marie and i have been traveling around into different breweries wineries and other establishments throughout the area telling stories of local history kind of the wild and unusual the interesting and stories that slipped through the cracks when it comes to talking about our local history and tons a special program because we are here in a Historic Site in february we are here at the Harrison Hall. It has a lot of historic significance to the American Civil War which we will get into as we move forward this evening but before we go into the microphone over to joe. Thank you so much for joining us here and live at Harrison Hall know my name is joe rizzo the execu
State in history. Good evening and welcome tonight history and for those of you are not familiar with the history on path, the series what we have been doing for the last two years now, congratulations on her anniversary guys climactic and thank you. Which we get each other. Yes bear, that sounds good and works pretty so joe and marie and i have been traveling around into different breweries wineries and other establishments throughout the area telling stories of local history kind of the wild and unusual the interesting and stories that slipped through the cracks when it comes to talking about our local history and tons a special program because we are here in a Historic Site in february we are here at the Harrison Hall. It has a lot of historic significance to the American Civil War which we will get into as we move forward this evening but before we go into the microphone over to joe. Thank you so much for joining us here and live at Harrison Hall know my name is joe rizzo the execu
Outskirts in oak ridge cemetery. So, like it is important to the city of springfield. Cyber is up to 2005 to the public, and home to many folks here in Central Illinois. A president ial library for the greatest president. The purpose of the library is very basic, to preserve and pass on the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Hes a man who i think best encapsulated what it means to be american, what the whole idea of america is all about. Freedom, equality, opportunity. We do put him on a pedestal, rightly, but he was also a human being and had great ambitions to do great things. And he certainly succeeded in that. Abraham lincoln was born in 1809 in kentucky. He lived there just for a few years, moved when he was six or seven up to indiana and lived through his teens and indiana. He grew up on the frontier, so he had a lot of hard work to do clearing land, essentially being a farmer in many ways. Again, lived a very difficult life though, i think. One that he was determined to move beyond. You
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