Pekin and Springfield, Illinois–29 March 2017
Pekin, IL
Our first stop was Pekin, a small city of 30,000 people, where I grew up. THe first picture is from the library; the lamp-post at the right is from the original building.
The building at the lagoon:
And the two houses where I lived when I lived in Pekin.
OK. That’s enough of that.
Springfield, IL
We got to Springfield in time to briefly take in the Lincoln Presidential Museum. There are quite a few artifacts as well as dioramas.
Lincoln was not universally loved during his Presidency; there is a whole wall of cartoons mocking him:
This is the gravestone from Lincoln’s second son, Edward:
And bronze casts of Lincoln’s face in 1860 and 1865.
Miscellaneous artifacts:
There was also a guy from a local radio station doing a broadcast from the museum.