We went to the Lincoln Home Historic Site run by the National Parks this AM. It is wonderful. They are restoring the 4 square blocks around Lincoln's home in Springfield where he lived for 25 years. They are off to a good start. It is so well done and the movie in the Visitor Center is much better than that in the museum yesterday. I took the tour of the home. Too many steep steps for Jack and there are 20 people in a group. Attached is picture of the home and the desk in the bedroom that actually was Lincoln's as is all of the black leather furniture in the house. Lots of the other stuff in the house is "of the period"and very nicely done. The wallpaper in the bedroom is an accurate reproduction. It is very "yikes" when you walk into the room. There were some craftsmen working in one of the empty lots and I bought a shepard's hook for the yard. See picture.
We then left Springfield and made our way south to Marion IL. It is about 10 miles from here to I-24 which is then a straight 3-hour shot to Nashville tomorrow. Quite a bit of local traffic today so we stopped early to get out of everyone's way.
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