2009 

 

July 2009

July 1, 2009
Alaska Children's Choir
Lincoln Bicentennial Concert
8:15 p.m.
Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center Film Theater
The award-winning Alaska Children's Choir have put together a special Lincoln Bicentennial Tour for 2009, titled "Voices of Hope and Peace." Join them in Gettysburg for a program of Civil War-era songs and sacred and secular music in different languages. To learn more about the Alaska Children's Choir, visit their website. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Visit www.gettysburgfoundation.org, call 877-874-2478 or stop by the ticket counter in the lobby of the Museum and Visitor Center to receive tickets.


July 2-5, 2009
Lincoln200™: The Bicentennial Festival
Philadelphia, PA

Sponsored by members of the Civil War History Consortium Independence Visitor Center, Philadelphia, PA. Endorsed by the Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

July 12 - 29, 2009
Presidential Academy for American History and Civics 

Designed for secondary school teachers, this academy will focus on three speeches: the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and the "I Have a Dream" speech. Participants will spend five days in Philadelphia, six days in Gettysburg, PA, and five days in Washington, DC  studying the American Revolution and Founding, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights movement, respectively. Visit Presidential Academy for more information.



July 25-26, 2009
Civil War Hospital & Encampment
Presented by members of the 88th Pennsylvania Infantry
Volunteer Regiment
Gettysburg, PA

Schedule:
11 a.m. Orientation
This informational program will describe how Civil War field hospitals worked and will include a question and answer session.

2 p.m. Living Theatre Presentation
Character recreations of John W. Rawlins, Regimental Surgeon, Joseph Shoemaker, and Francis Murphy, and other medical personnel of the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Recreations of arm amputations, bullet probes, artillery facial burns, saber wounds, etc. Embalming will also be demonstrated.

Historic Gettysburg Railroad Station, 35 Carlisle Street, Gettysburg. PA
Open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Free admission  (717) 337-8233

August 2009   

August 22-23, 2009
Civil War Hospital & Encampment
Presented by members of the 88th Pennsylvania Infantry
Volunteer Regiment
Gettysburg, PA

Schedule:
11 a.m. Orientation
This informational program will describe how Civil War field hospitals worked and will include a question and answer session.

2 p.m. Living Theatre Presentation
Character recreations of John W. Rawlins, Regimental Surgeon, Joseph Shoemaker, and Francis Murphy, and other medical personnel of the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Recreations of arm amputations, bullet probes, artillery facial burns, saber wounds, etc. Embalming will also be demonstrated.

Historic Gettysburg Railroad Station, 35 Carlisle Street, Gettysburg. PA
Open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Free admission (717) 337-8233

  
September 2009

September 6, 2009 - Time: 2PM
Lincoln and the Widow Bixby
Philadelphia, PA

Judy Giesberg, a professor of history at Villanova University, will be giving a lecture on "Lincoln and the Widow Bixby". This lecture analyzes the life of Lydia Bixby (a widow and mother of five sons killed in the Civil War) to discuss how ordinary women experienced the Civil War and survived loss. The event is to be held at the Grand Army of the Pepublic Museum and Library Contact Eric Schminke at (215) 289-6484 or garmuslib@verizon.net.

Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library
4278 Griscom St, #80
Philadelphia, PA 19124

September 12-13, 2009
Civil War Hospital & Encampment
Presented by members of the 88th Pennsylvania Infantry
Volunteer Regiment
Gettysburg, PA

Schedule:
11 a.m. Orientation
This informational program will describe how Civil War field hospitals worked and will include a question and answer session.

2 p.m. Living Theatre Presentation
Character recreations of John W. Rawlins, Regimental Surgeon, Joseph Shoemaker, and Francis Murphy, and other medical personnel of the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Recreations of arm amputations, bullet probes, artillery facial burns, saber wounds, etc. Embalming will also be demonstrated.

Historic Gettysburg Railroad Station, 35 Carlisle Street, Gettysburg. PA
Open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Free admission (717) 337-8233

September 22, 2009 - Time: 7pm
Lincoln Life Highlights
Myerstown, PA

James Hayney presents an evening with President Lincoln.  A cordial invitation is extended to everyone to attend this exciting visit with the President on his 200th birthday year.

         Myerstown Community Library
        199 N College St.,  Myerstown, Pa 17067
        llm@lclibs.org or 717-866-2800

 

October 2009 

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November 2009 

November 16 - November 22, 2009

The Lincoln Flag of the Pike County Historical Society at the
Historic Gettysburg Railroad Station

This 36-star flag was draped over the balustrade in the presidential box at Ford's Theatre on Good Friday, April 14, 1865. On that night President Lincoln was there to see the play, "Our American Cousin." John Wilkes Booth, a former actor, assassinated President Lincoln that night in hopes of creating political chaos. The Lincoln Flag was used by Laura Keene, an actress starring in that evening's performance, to cradle the President's head as he lay mortally wounded.
35 Carlisle Street, Gettysburg, PA (717) 337-8233 Open daily 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Free Admission

November 19, 2009
Dedication Day
Sponsored by the Lincoln Fellowship, Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and Gettysburg National Military Park

November 19, the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, was formally designated as Dedication Day, by a joint resolution of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, on November 19, 1946.

9:30 a.m. Wreath Laying Ceremony, Soldiers' National Monument, Soldiers' National Cemetery

10:00 a.m. 146th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address - Dedication Day Ceremony, Soldiers' National Cemetery
Performances by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band
Naturalization Ceremony will be held at conclusion of the Dedication Day ceremony Presented by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and hosted by the National Park Service.
Speaker: TBA, Sponsored by the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania, the Gettysburg National Military Park, the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and the Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. These events were financed in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development (Inclement weather location: the Majestic Theater, 25 Carlisle Street, Gettysburg, PA.) Free and open to the general public.

11:15 a.m. US Colored Troops Graveside Salute
Immediately following the Dedication Day Ceremony
Soldiers' National Cemetery (northern area of the cemetery)
Speaker: James Getty, portraying Abraham Lincoln (For more information contact Debra McCauslin (717) 528-8553.)

Gettysburg, PA
This event is endorsed by the US ALBC and PA ALBC.

   

November 19, 2009
12:00 p.m. Lincoln Fellowship Luncheon
Gettysburg College Union Ballroom
Speaker: Lewis Lehrman is a philanthropist and a co-founder of the Lincoln Prize and the author of Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point (Stackpole Books, 2008).
[For Fellowship members only; pre-registration is required; no phone reservations accepted. For information on becoming a member of the Lincoln Fellowship, visit us online at www.gettysburg.edu/civilwar/institute, by phone (717) 337-6590, or write to the Lincoln Fellowship, P.O. Box 3372, Gettysburg, PA 17325].
Book Signing following Luncheon- Lewis Lehrman: Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point (Stackpole Books, 2008).

7:30 p.m. For the People: Dedicated to The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
in Celebration of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial, Majestic Theater
Gettysburg
Oratorio for brass band, woodwind octet, and soloists
John William Jones, Professor of Music, Sunderman Conservatory of Music, Gettysburg College

With performances by: The Spires Brass Band , The Sunderman Conservatory of Music Woodwind Octet, Kathleen Sasnett, soprano; Jeffrey Fahnestock, tenor; Roosevelt Credit, bass-baritone

The Eleventh Annual Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction
Majestic Theater, awarded by Jeff Shaara
Recipient: TBA

8:00 p.m. 48th Annual Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture, Majestic Theater.
Speaker: Michael Burlingame, May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor Emeritus of History
Topic: "Abraham Lincoln: New Information, Fresh Perspectives"

9:00 p.m. Public Reception and Book Signings
Authors: Michael Burlingame: Abraham Lincoln: A Life
Jeff Shaara: The Steel Wave, at the Majestic Theater.

These events are endorsed by the PA ALBC

 

December 2009

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