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Special Preview of the Lincoln
Exhibit at the
Princeville Heritage Museum
The opening reception for
the Lincoln: the
Constitution and the Civil War
will be Saturday, April
5th from 2-4pm at the Princeville Heritage Museum.
This is the first
opportunity to preview this national traveling exhibit,
and the public is invited
to attend this free event. Refreshments will be served.
The Princeville Heritage
Museum in conjunction with the Lillie M. Evans Library
will be hosting the
exhibit from April 7, 2014 through May 9, 2014.
Organized thematically,
the exhibition explores how Lincoln used the Constitution
to confront three
intertwined crises of the war-the secession of Southern states,
slavery, and wartime civil
liberties.
Visitors will leave
the exhibition with a more complete understanding of Abraham
Lincoln
as president and the Civil
War as the nation's gravest constitutional crisis.
Regular hours at the
Princeville Heritage Museum during this exhibit will be Mondays,
Wednesday, Fridays & Saturdays 10am-2pm; Tuesdays from 2pm-8pm; and
Thursdays from 2pm-6pm. The exhibit is closed on Sundays.
The Museum is located at
325 N Ostrom Avenue in Princeville, Il-15 minutes north of Peoria.
The 30,000 sq ft handicap-accessible facility features
agriculture antiques, area artifacts, genealogy research, and more.
The Akron Townhouse School, a one-room school, located on the
Museum grounds. For more information and for booking class
visits, please call the Museum (309) 385-1916.
In addition to the regular
exhibit hours, a series of programs will be presented at the Museum on
Tuesdays starting April 8th and continuing through April 29th.
The first is Illinois in the Civil War and it will be
presented by Tom Emery on April 8th 6:30pm. On April 15th 6:30pm
Brian Fox Ellis will present Black Jack Logan: Civil War General,
Senator, King-Maker. On April 22nd 1pm, historical
impersonator, Debra Ann Miller, takes us back to Mrs. Lincoln's
"blue room salon" in April 1865. A special tea with
Mrs. Lincoln is included-please call the Museum @ (309) 385-1916
for reservations! The last program will be on April 29th 6:30pm.
Jeanne Schultz Angel will present the Anti-Slavery Movement in
Black & White and explore the history behind the anti-slavery
movement in Northern Illinois. Two of the programs, Black Jack
Logan and the Anti-Slavery Movement in Black & White
were provided through a grant from the IHC Road Scholars Speakers
Bureau. Visit the LME Library website at lmelibrary.org for more
information on these programs.
Lincoln: the
Constitution and the Civil War is
a traveling exhibition for libraries and was organized by the National
Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public
Programs office. The traveling exhibition has been made possible
by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War is based on an exhibition of the same name
developed by the National Constitution Center.
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