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by ALANNA NASH
A visit to the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum in Springfield, 111., where the 16th U.S. president practiced
law before entering political life, isn’t just a look back in time, it’s a journey into
the action. Interactive Civil War displays, electronic maps,
realistic figures of the Lincoln family and ghostly, holographic
characters from the past dramatically provide entertainment
and education, delivering both with a dose of enchantment.
The facility “is now the logical starting poinc of any Lincoln trip,’’
says Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicen
tennial Commission, which plans events to mark Lincoln’s 2(X)th
birthday in 2009-
While the library', which was moved into the spacious new facil
ity from its previously cramped quarters beneath the state Capitol,
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houses priceless documents that Lincoln wrote himself, the museum
is a bigger draw for most tourists. The 40,(XX)-square-foot complex—double the size of
any other U.S. presidential museum—opened in 2(X)5 and weds traditional scholarship
with 21st-century showmanship in a way that makes Lincoln's legacy come to life. So far,
it's a big hit—the museum welcomed its millionth visitor in December 2006—and is
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"Instead of coming here for just one day to see Lincoln's home and tomb,
they now stay two or three days to go through the library and museum,’’
says Ernie Slottag, Springfield's mayoral aide.
Many visitors are awed by the numerous detailed exhibits in which life
size sculpted and costumed figures depict key scenes from Lincoln’s life and
presidency, such as the courtship of Abe and his wife, Mary, the fatal illness
of their son, Willie, or a slave sale witnessed by young Lincoln that helped
shape his anti-slavery views.
“It’s surely one of the finest museums of its kind," says Samuel Clifford,
82, a visitor from Evansville, Ind. “I spent more than three hours there and
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