News Release

Lincoln Day 2020

Date: February 4, 2020
Contact: Mike Capps, 812-937-4541 X 107

Thomas Mackie to be Speaker at 2020 Lincoln Day Program

Former director of the Abraham Lincoln Library at Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee, Thomas Mackie will be the featured speaker at the annual Lincoln Day program on Sunday, February 9, 2020. Mackie will speak about Lincoln museums and historic sites and their role as shrines to the 16th President’s memory. The program will begin at 2:00 p.m. (CST) and will be held in the Abraham Lincoln Hall of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, Indiana. The 2020 Lincoln Day program will include presentation of the colors by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, special music, and other ceremonial activities to honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln and his family. Following the indoor program, the traditional pilgrimage to the gravesite of Nancy Hanks Lincoln for a wreath laying ceremony will be held. All are invited to a reception in the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Hall at the conclusion of the program. Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial preserves the Indiana farm where Abraham Lincoln lived for 14 years -- from 1816 to 1830, and the site where his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, is buried. The Memorial is located eight miles south of Interstate 64 on Indiana Highway 162, adjacent to Lincoln State Park.
For more information, please contact the park office at 812-937-4541.