examples and discusses her influences and reasons for painting lincoln. she concludes the program by discussing a summer-long daily tribute to veterans held at gettysburg national cemetery. the lincoln group of the district of columbia hosted this event. our speaker tonight is wendy allen. i think most people in the room probably know who wendy allen is, but for those who do not, she is an artist. did her first painting abraham lincoln in 1983. and since then, she has focused on abraham lincoln as her subject and has made many, many paintings in different styles that she will talk about. she also has been very active being interviewed by cnn and had her paintings in the historical society along with some other people you might have heard of. salvador dali. he was there, too. and norman rockwell. certainly in very good company, and so were they. in addition to all of this, she lives in gettysburg and has a gallery up there. she is also very active with the fellowship of penn