In mid March I posted about a plan for a road trip I call “Chasing Abraham Lincoln.” Part 1 was to happen late March. That plan was abruptly rescheduled for the first week of April because of a brewing snowstorm. Then the rescheduled date was even more abruptly delayed because of a family medical emergency with my father.
The plan is back on!
Actually, a slightly modified plan. I’ve cut out a couple of stops that in retrospect now seem impossibly optimistic. The revised trip now gives me more reasonable time to make stops on a nearly 2000 mile drive into Lincoln’s life.
This, of course, is just Part 1. Part 2 will take me into Illinois later in the summer to track the Lincoln and Douglas debates and other Lincoln sites I missed when I was out there last time.
I’ll plan to post from the road when I can. Fingers crossed that there aren’t any other abrupt events that change my plans, again.
David J. Kent is the author of Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America, in Barnes and Noble stores now. His previous books include Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity (2013) and Edison: The Inventor of the Modern World (2016) and two e-books: Nikola Tesla: Renewable Energy Ahead of Its Time and Abraham Lincoln and Nikola Tesla: Connected by Fate.
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