The things you find on the Internet! From 1955, a look at the career of Abraham Lincoln by Professor Robert Merrell Gage as he sculpts a bust of the Great Emancipator. This film won an Academy Award for best live action short film. Head of the Department of Sculpture at the University of Southern California, his first commissioned work as a sculptor was a statue of Lincoln that is now on the grounds of the Kansas State Capitol. He passed away at age 88 in 1981.
Today is a state holiday in Illinois to observe Abraham Lincoln’s birth. As always on this day the Law Mines are closed. Politicians are ever with us like bad weather. A true statesman like Lincoln come once in a very great while.
” A true statesman like Lincoln come once in a very great while.”
So true. We could really use a Lincoln now!