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| National Park Service      | Lincoln Boyhood  |   | P.O. Box 1816     |
|                            | NM               |   |                   |
| U.S. Department of the     |                  |   | Lincoln City, IN  |
| Interior                   | Use the complete |   | 47552             |
|                            | site name here   |   |                   |
|                            | (e.g. Palo Alto  |   | 812-937-4541      |
|                            | Battlefield      |   | phone             |
|                            | Historic Site).  |   |                   |
|                            |                  |   | 812-937-9929 fax  |
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**Lincoln Boyhood NM** News Release

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January 10, 2008

For Immediate Release

### Chief Justice to be Speaker at 2008 Lincoln Day Program

Frank J. Williams, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island
and one of the country\'s most renowned experts on Abraham Lincoln will
be the featured speaker at the annual Lincoln Day program on Sunday,
February 10, 2008. The program will begin at 2:00 p.m. (CST) and will be
held in the Abraham Lincoln Hall of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial,
Lincoln City, Indiana.

Judge Williams is the author or editor of over thirteen books and has
contributed chapters to several others and lectured on the subject
throughout the country. At the same time, he has amassed an unsurpassed
private library and archive that ranks among the nation\'s largest and
finest Lincoln collections. In 2000, the Chief Justice was appointed to
the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission created by
Congress to plan events to commemorate the 200th birthday of Abraham
Lincoln in 2009. Since 1996, Chief Justice Williams has served as
founding Chairman of The Lincoln Forum, a national assembly of Lincoln
and Civil War devotees. For 9 years, he served as President of the
Abraham Lincoln Association and, for 14 years, as President of The
Lincoln Group of Boston. He is currently at work on an annotated
bibliography of all the Lincoln titles published since 1865. His book of
essays, *Judging Lincoln*, was published by Southern Illinois University
Press in 2002. He also serves as Literary Editor of the *Lincoln Herald*
where his quarterly "Lincolniana" survey appears.

The 2008 Lincoln Day program will include presentation of the colors by
the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, choral music and other
ceremonial activities to honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln and his
family.

Following the indoor program, the traditional pilgrimage to the
gravesite of Nancy Hanks Lincoln for a wreath laying ceremony will be
held. All are invited to a reception in the Memorial Visitor Center at
the conclusion of the program. The park entrance fee will be waived for
this special event.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial preserves the Indiana farm where
Abraham Lincoln lived for 14 years \-- from 1816 to 1830, and the site
where his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, is buried. The Memorial is
located eight miles south of Interstate 64 on Indiana Highway 162,
adjacent to Lincoln State Park.

For more information, please contact the park office at 812-937-4541.