One Man's Lincoln - smARTS
One Man's Lincoln
smARTS
Friday, September 30, 2011
“They called him a baboon, a murderer, a slave-lover. And they called him the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, a saint. I called him friend and partner.” One Man’s Lincoln is a compelling portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the man who knew him best, Billy Herndon, Lincoln’s friend and law partner for 17 years in Springfield, Illinois.
In early 1861, as he was leaving to be inaugurated president, Lincoln told Herndon to keep his name on the shingle outside their office because he intended to return some day. After the assassination, Herndon immediately began working on a definitive biography of our sixteenth president. It would be Lincoln unvarnished, a great man in all his humanity, neither saint nor villain.
Don’t just stop at our performance of One Man’s Lincoln! Take your students to the Hopkinsville Community College Library’s exhibit on Lincoln and come to our performance to combine two great educational opportunities into one great field trip! For more information on the Library’s exhibit please click here.
For Grades 3-12
10a.m. only
50 minutes
$5 admission
Curriculum Connections: Biography, Language Arts, History, Multi-Cultural, Public Speaking, Reading, Self-Esteem, Character Development
