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Cole Campbell, Park Volunteer NPS George and Helen Hartzog Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service Presented to Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial Volunteer Cole Campbell
Lincoln City, IN-Cole Campbell, a youth volunteer at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, received the National Park Service, Midwest Region's 2012 George and Helen Hartzog Youth Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service. Campbell will also be considered for the national level award.
Campbell, an eighth grader at Heritage Hills Middle School, volunteers at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial as a cultural demonstrator. Despite high summer temperatures, Campbell dons period dress to show visitors to Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home what life may have been like for our 16th president as he was growing up in Indiana. Campbell chops wood, plants gardens, and sheers sheep, all the while explaining frontier chores to park visitors.
Named for George B. Hartzog, Jr. who served as National Park Service Director from 1964 to 1972 and his wife Helen, the Hartzog Award recognizes the important role volunteers play in our National Parks. Hartzog said, "When a VIP agrees to share his talents, skills and interests with the National Park Service, he is paying us one of the highest compliments possible by offering a most valued possession - his time."
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Indiana's first national park unit, is located off of Indiana Highway 162 in Lincoln City, Indiana. Admission to the park, which includes the Lincoln Living Historical Farm, is $3.00 per person, age 17 and older, with a maximum charge of $5.00 per family. The receipt for admission is good for a period of seven days from the date of purchase. There is no charge for visitors who present an Interagency Pass, a Senior Pass, an Access Pass, or an Annual Lincoln Boyhood Park Pass. The passports may be purchased at the park. Lincoln Boyhood is open year-round except Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas and New Years Eves. |
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Did You Know?
The memorial landscape design was conceived of by noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. He envisioned a memorial of strength and simplicity, sentiment and reason. He wanted the memorial to remain simple, so as not to overwhelm the "familiar associations" of the area with the Lincolns.