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The Bostic Lincoln Center Museum Grand Opening
and Dedication was a rousing success with over 200 attendees! (04/12/2008)
The enthusiastic display of public interest generated significant media
coverage. Some articles of note:
- An article on the BLC dedication and grand opening in the News & Observer
(Raleigh, NC) may be found
here.
An audio slideshow produced by the News & Observer may be viewed
here.
- An article from the Charlotte (NC) Observer is
here.
- An article from the Shelby (NC) Star may be viewed
here.
- An article from the Statesville (NC) Record & Landmark article
is
here.
- An article from the Fort Wayne (IN) Journal-Gazette is
here.
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WBTV reporter Kristen Miranda visited the Bostic Lincoln Center and informed her
viewers about the work of the BLC and Lincoln's origins in North Carolina.
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The Bostic Lincoln Center extends our sincere condolences to the loved ones of
Tom Melton, who passed away February 23, 2008, at the age of 88. [obituary]
[article
in The Shelby Star]
For more than fifty years, Tom was the primary influence keeping alive the local tradition of Abraham Lincoln's Rutherford County birth, and provided the inspiration for the Bostic Lincoln Center.
He was an Emeritus Board Member of the Bostic Lincoln Center and a revered
authority on Lincoln's Carolina origins.
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Save The Date! The Bostic Lincoln Center museum dedication is April 12th,
2008!
The BLC thanks the Bostic Town Council and Mayor Mitch Harrill for generously
providing the historic building. Currently being renovated, the building is a
former Bostic town hall and fire station. |
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The Bostic Lincoln Center co-sponsored a presentation at
Lanier Library in Tryon, NC, on February 19, 2008. Speakers included BLC officers and Jerry Goodnight
(co-author of
The Tarheel Lincoln).
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New photographs of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural
have been discovered. |
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New photographs of Abraham Lincoln arriving at the stage to deliver his Gettysburg
Address
have been discovered. |
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The Bostic Lincoln Center organized a Lincoln Origins
Forum in Forest City, NC, on April 14, 2007. |
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The Tarheel Lincoln co-author Jerry Goodnight
visited
Rutherford County in May 2006 to address the Bostic Lincoln Center at the Bostic
Town Hall. |
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Testing of Lincoln's living relatives suggest that Abraham Lincoln may have
suffered from ataxia (The
Arizona Republic, Feb 12 2006). |
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An
Associated Press story in the Chicago Sun-Times mentioned the question,
including Eller & Goodnight's
The Tarheel Lincoln, in February 2005, in an article about Presidential
birthplaces. |
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Carolina Country has had a series of articles on the question of Lincoln's Bostic birth.
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An Associated Press article from December 2003: "Book
suggests Lincoln was born in N.C. - and out of wedlock".
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