Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Lincoln turns 200



Last week marked the completion of the 200th year since baby Abraham Lincoln was born in a cabin in Kentucky. Here in the town where he settled as a young adult and lived most of his life we had a fairly large celebration. Our family went to join in an effort to have thousands of people read the Gettysburg Address all together at the same time. While there, we met our new governor, Pat Quinn. Here are a couple photographs of the event.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Thanksgiving 2007





  All four of our family drove down to St. Louis for a traditional Thanksgiving visit with my parents.  My mom prepared a wonderful dinner. 

The image of the horizon with the white farm building (taken from our car as we drove south to St. Louis) is very typical of the scenery we have here in central Illinois.