IU Kokomo Celebrates: Abraham Lincoln The Hoosier Years
February 12, 2008
The nationwide, yearlong, bicentennial celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, begins February 12 and will culminate in 2009 with the rededication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Consequently, on February 13, from 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., a workshop reviewing the events of his Hoosier ties will be held in the Kelley Student Center, room 130AC with Indiana University Kokomo visiting lecturer Keith A. Erekson presenting. Erekson has served as assistant editor of the Indiana Magazine of History and is currently preparing a book about Lincoln and Indiana.
This workshop, sponsored by the IU Kokomo Division of Education: EdSAC, meshed, and Graduate Studies, will make the case that Lincoln’s years in the Hoosier state profoundly influenced his physical, mental, and emotional development.
Young Abraham moved to Indiana with his family in 1816 when he was seven years old. Here he grew up, worked, and played, attended school, and read, leaving for Illinois in 1830 at age twenty-one. However, it was Here his mother died, his father remarried, and his sister married and died in childbirth.
This event is free and open to the public. Participants will leave with materials and ideas for teaching their own students about Indiana's celebrated former resident.
