Lincoln Boyhood Administrative History

1. Superintendent [Robert Burns] to Director [George Hartzog], January 29, 1964, Park Files, Publications and Interpretive Services; and Evansville Press, undated clipping, ca. 1963—64, Park Files, Clippings.

2. Superintendent [Albert W. Banton, Jr.] to Staff, Lincoln Boyhood, June 27, 1965, Park Files, Publications and Interpretive Services.

3. See Park Files, Clippings.

4. Dale News, July 31, 1964, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1964.

5. Superintendent [Robert Burns] to Director [George Hartzog], January 30, 1965, Park Files, Publications and Interpretive Services.

6. Robert Burns, letter to author, January 1986.

7. Ibid.; and unidentified news clipping, Park Files, Clippings.

8. Albert W. Banton, Jr., interview with author, September 19, 1985, Indianapolis.

9. Charlotte N. Baird, interview with author, July 10, 1985, Lincoln City.

10. Washington Star, February 11, 1968, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1968.

11. Baird interview.

12. Acting Superintendent to Regional Director [Lemuel Garrison], Northeast Region, September 11, 1968, Park Files, Living Historical Farm, Construction and Staff.

13. Superintendent (Albert W. Banton, Jr.] to Regional Director [Lemuel Garrison], Northeast Region, April 30, 1968, Park Files, Chronological Reports: Reports to Region.

14. Banton interview; and Baird interview.

15. Superintendent [Albert W. Banton, Jr.] to Assistant to the Regional Director, Cooperative Activities and Public Affairs, Northeast Region, September 2, 1969, Park Files, Chronological Reports, Reports to Region; and [Albert W. Banton, Jr.,] "Lincoln Living Historical Farm" (Lincoln City, 1969, Typescript).

16. See Park Files, Chronological Reports: Reports to Region.

17. Ibid.

18. "Lincoln Living Historical Farm."

19. Ibid.

20. Barry Mackintosh, Interpretation in the National Park Service: A Historical Perspective (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, History Division, 1986), 68; and Park Files, Chronological Reports: Reports to Region.

21. Banton interview; Baird interview; and Operations Evaluation Report, July 18, 1972, Park Files, Park Files.

22. Acting Superintendent to Assistant Director, Cooperative Activities, January 19, 1973, Midwest Region files, Central Files.

23. Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle] to Assistant Director, Cooperative Activities, February 8, 1974, Midwest Region Files, Central Files.

24. The words quoted are those of Bureau Historian Barry Mackintosh, in a note to the author, June 4, 1985. The opinion is shared by others within the National Park Service.

25. Telephone conversation, Superintendent Norman Hellmers with author, November 14, 1986.

26. Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle] to Regional Director [Merrill D. Beal], January 23, 1976, Midwest Region files, Central Files.

27. Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle] to Regional Director [Merrill D. Beal], Midwest Region, February 22, 1986, Midwest Region files, Central Files.

28. Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle] to Assistant to the Director for the Bicentennial, July 29, 1975; Franklin S. Roberts and Wendy Appleton to [Acting Superintendent] Jim Burnett, n.d.; and press release, n.d., all in Park files, Unites States Bicentennial.

29. Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle] to Regional Director [Merrill D. Beal], Midwest Region, March 7, 1975, Park files, United States Bicentennial.

30. Warren D. Beach, letter to author, December 1985.

31. Press release, n.d.; and Jasper Herald, June 28, 1980, both in Park files, Yearly Activities, 1980.

32. Press release, n.d., Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1980.

33. Rockport Journal—Democrat, September 24, 1981, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1981.

34. Rockport Journal—Democrat, May 20, 1982, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1982.

35. Press release, June 17, 1982, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1982.

36. "Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial Special Summer Events Program" (National Park Service, n.d., Flier), Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1983.

37. "Arbor Day" (National Park Service, April 8, 1983, Program), Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1983.

38. Dubois County [Indiana] Herald, May 5, 1983, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1983.

39. Rockport Journal—Democrat, July 28, 1983, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1983.

40. Rockport Journal—Democrat, March 10, 1982, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1982.

41. Eastern National Park & Monument Association Newsletter, (Spring/Summer 1983), Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1983.

42. Banton interview; Beach, letter to author, December 1985; and Norman D. Hellmers to author, December 5, 1986.

43. Burns, letter to author, January 1986; Banton interview; Dale News, August 22, 1980, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1980; Santa's Country, July 6, 1977, Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1977; and Park Files, Yearly Activities, 1983

44. Memorandum, Park Ranger [Don F. Adams] to Superintendent, November 21, 1986.

45. Interview, Mrs. Glenn (Freda) Schroder with Don F. Adams, Lincoln City, November 20, 1986.

46. Ibid.

47. Lincoln Boyhood Drama Association, Quality of Play and Production Committee, Statement of Purpose and Guidelines, (Lincoln Boyhood Drama Association, [1985,] Draft), 2.

48. Superintendent [Norman Hellmers] to Regional Director [Charles H. Odegaard], Midwest Region, April 23, 1985, Midwest Region files, Central Files; Lincoln Boyhood Drama Association, "Quality of Play and Production Committee, Statement of Purpose and Guidelines" (Lincoln Boyhood Drama Association, [1985,] Draft). Specifically, the Lincoln Boyhood Drama Association hoped to show that Abraham Lincoln's life was not overly tragic, his family was not poor, Thomas Lincoln was a responsible father, Nancy Hanks Lincoln was not illegitimate, and that the boy was called Abraham in his pre-law years.

49. Ibid.

50. Superintendent [Norman Hellmers] to Regional Director [Charles Odegaard], Midwest Region, April 23, 1985, Midwest Region files, Central Files.