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Lincoln Home National Historic Site Hosts “A Message at Midnight” Play

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News Release Date: November 9, 2022
Contact: Jasmine Leung, 217-391-3244

SPRINGFIELD, IL: Lincoln Home National Historic Site will host the play “A Message at Midnight” December 8 at 6p.m., December 9 at 6p.m., and December 11 at 3p.m. in the Visitor Center.

After being virtual the past two years, this annual holiday tradition at the site returns in-person this holiday season. Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant impersonators will perform this one act play. Attendance is free and open to the public.

Audiences will be taken back in time to December 24, 1864. The play follows President Lincoln as he waits for General Grant to arrive at the White House on Christmas Eve. Amid all the festivities, the Civil War still drags on. Lincoln and Grant hope to hear news from General Sherman of his campaign towards Savannah. News of victory will help ensure the passage of the 13th amendment and provide a much-needed morale boost for the North. News of defeat may be the final blow to the hopes of national reunion and freedom of the enslaved. The play begins as Lincoln paces and midnight approaches.

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