23nd Annual

Lincoln Reenactment

February 15 & 16, 2013

                          Members of the 2010 President's Club pose in the new addition to the

                           Lincoln Carnegie Library before the morning programming and noon

                           Look-A-Like Contest Ceremony. 

The Century-old Lincoln County Courthouse is a perfect location for the morning program and Look-A-Like Contest Ceremony.  This 110 year old native limestone building is one of the most photographed buildings in Kansas.  You may feel as though you truly are there in the 1860's with President Lincoln!

Grace Bedell, played by Maruby McQueen writes the letter to Lincoln telling him he might win the election if he changed his face by  growing a beard.  Lincoln took her advice, thereby, became President and was able to change the Nation.  Grace and her husband, George Billings, homesteaded in Kansas, in Ottawa County which boarders Lincoln County to the east.  A monument stands in the Delphos city park honoring Grace for her letter.

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                                     LINCOLN REENACTMENT WEEKEND     FEB 15 & 16, 2013
       
FRIDAY:                                  LINCOLN JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL
 1:00 pm  Scenic Roots performing vintage music,  Erin and Amber Rogers, Concordia, KS
 1:20 pm  ASSEMBLY: "BUFFALO BILL, the CIVIL WAR " Kirk Shapland, Dighton, KS, Presenter
              with CALIFORNIA  JOE,  Mark Berry, McDonald, KS     Marla Matkin, Hill City, KS,
              Mistress of Ceremonies      
              Free, underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Library of America,
                       and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History                        
                                             LINCOLN HISTORICAL MUSEUM
 2:15       Open House - Lincoln County Historical Museum     
 3:00       Round Table Presented by Deb Goodrich-Bisel, Lawrence, KS
                Author of recently published book, "Civil War in Kansas, Ten Years of Turmoil"
              Free, underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Libraray of America,
                       and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
                                                    FINCH THEATRE
 5:00       Invitation only Dinner for Program Presenters
                                              MARSHALL-YOHE HOUSE
 6:30 - 8:30       Tours of the home,  $5 Adult, $2.50 Student
              Parlor vintage music presented by Scenic Roots, Concordia, KS
              Parlor audience with Abraham Lincoln, Troy Strahan, Gardner, KS, Presenter
                             
SATURDAY:                                 COURTHOUSE
                                  TICKETS ON SALE BEGINNING AT 9:00 am
                             Adult all day & meal Advance $20, At Door $25
          Student through 12 years old all day & meal Advance $10, At door $12.50
          Half day and meal:  Adult $12.50, Student  $6.25,  Meal alone $7, $3.50  
                       
  9:30    Trunk of Civil War and 1860's Treasures:  Supervised activities for children

              Sponsored by The Civil War Trust
  9:35    Dulcimer Music Provided by Scenic Roots, Amber & Erin Rogers, Concordia, KS        
  9:55     Welcome by Master of Ceremonies, Jack Crispin, Lincoln, KS

10:00    MARY TODD LINCOLN  "I Dated The Three Candidates"    Bev Nelson, Lincoln, KS

10:30   PRESIDENT LINCOLN  "No Simple Answers-Extraordinary Actions"  Third in series:
            Washington arrival to 1862 and the proposal of the Emancipation Proclamation
            Troy Strahan, Gardner KS
 
11:00   "BUFFALO BILL and the CIVIL WAR"  Kirk Shapland, Dighton, KS, Presenter, with
            CALIFORNIA JOE,  Mark Berry, McDonald, KS                                     
11:30     15 minute Break

11:40     OLDIES SING-ALONG,  Scenic Roots, Concordia, KS  
12:00     LOOK-A-LIKE CEREMONY                  

                                              LINCOLN JR/SR  HIGH SCHOOL
12:30     BUFFALO STEW MEAL                                                     
 1:00     SCENIC ROOTS, Concordia, KS,  sisters Erin & Amber Rogers returning the third
             time to our Reenactment Weekend with more vintage music on duclcimer & violin
          
 1:15     HUMOR OF LINCOLN   Tim Rust, Wichita, KS
 1:30    "LETTERS TO MR. LINCOLN" The Grace Bedell Story  Maruby McQueen, Lincoln, KS

 1:40    "Emancipation - 150 Years"  Angela Bates, Nicodemus, KS          
 2:00    "19th CENTURY FUN, FARCE, & FRIVOLITIES"   Marla Matkin, Hill City, KS

 3:00    PRESIDENT'S BALL  played by the Free Staters Band, Newton, KS, Preceptor, Marla
            Matkin, Hill City, KS
 5:00    Farewell  
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Costuming  admired but not required,   Phone for lodging information 

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We  suggest a side trip to Delphos, Ks, during your visit to Lincoln.  Grace Bedell, the little girl who wrote the letter to Lincoln advising him that he had a better chance of winning the election if he grew a beard, homesteaded with her husband, George Billings, near there.   George took the avice from Horace Greeley, also from the state of New York,  not to settle in Colorado as first planned, but in Kansas.  George was among the first settlers on Yockey Creek, Grace following him later.   The Billings maintained their ties to Greeley and also became friends with Wild Bill Hickock, and other hunters who stayed in their modest cabin home.   Later, George became the President of the Delphos State Bank and he and Grace moved into the small town, living their remaining years there.    A monument honoring Grace for her letter stands in the Delphos City Park.