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Park Volunteers plant the kitchen garden at the Lincoln Living Historical Farm during Farm Workshops.

Farm Workshops

Our first workshop of 2012 will take place Saturday, January 28th, at 10 a.m. (central time). 

There are several hands-on workshops concerning the operation of the living historical farm planned this year. Each workshop will begin in the Memorial Visitor Center with a short lecture followed by hands-on work at the living historical farm with staff from the national park. Park staff and volunteers are researching historic varieties of crops and farm techniques that Thomas Lincoln would have likely used on his Indiana farm in the 1820s.

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Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War at Nancy Hanks Lincoln's Gravesite.

Ceremonies to honor Abraham Lincoln and his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, have long been a tradition at the site. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these consisted of reunions by veterans of the GAR. Beginning in the 1920s, the Boonville Press Club began sponsoring annual programs. Initially held at the pavilion that was built near the gravesite of Nancy Hanks Lincoln in 1909, the ceremony was later moved to the memorial building. Regardless of the location, though, an integral part of every program has been a walk, or pilgrimage, to the gravesite on the hill.