Lincoln Boyhood Administrative History

NOTES

1. Robert L. Burns to author, January 1986; and Elmer F. Stein, interview with author, July 9, 1985, Lincoln City.

2. Charlotte N. Baird, interview with author, July 11, 1985, Lincoln City, Indiana; and Burns to author, January 1986.

3. Burns to author, January 1986.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid. See also Park files, Publications and Interpretive Services, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, Indiana.

7. Burns to author, January 1986. See Appendix B for a list of the first season's television program topics.

8. Burns to author, January 1986; and Park files, Land Records.

9. Burns to author, January 1986.

10. United States Department of the Interior. "Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: The Design and Development." Typescript, Briefing statement, n.d.

11. Burns to author, January 1986.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Acting Superintendent [Warren D. Beach], Lincoln Boyhood, to Assistant Director, Cooperative Programs [Ben Butterfield], January 19, 1973, in Park files, Chronological Reports: Reports to Region.

15. Albert W. Banton, Jr., interview with author, September 19, 1985, Indianapolis; and Acting Superintendent [Warren D. Beach] to Assistant Director, Cooperative Programs [Ben Butterfield], January 19, 1973.

16. Baird interview.

17. Acting Superintendent [Warren D. Beach], Lincoln Boyhood, to Assistant Director, Cooperative Programs [Ben Butterfield], January 19, 1973; and Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle], Lincoln Boyhood, to Assistant Director [George A. Palmer], Northeast Region, February 8, 1974, both in Park files, Chronological Reports: Reports to Region.

18. Banton interview; and Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle], Lincoln Boyhood, to Assistant Director [George A. Palmer], Northeast Region, February 8, 1974.

19. Acting Superintendent [Warren D. Beach], Lincoln Boyhood, to Assistant Director, Cooperative Programs [Ben Butterfield], January 19, 1973.

20. Baird interview.

21. Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle], Lincoln Boyhood, to Assistant Director [George A. palmer], Northeast Region, February 8, 1974.

22. Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle], Lincoln Boyhood, to Assistant Director [George A. Palmer], Mid—Atlantic Region, February 3, 1975.

23. Banton interview. Assistant Regional Director George A. Palmer recalled that Northeast (later called Mid—Atlantic) Regional staff involvement was greater than Banton remembered. Palmer took frequent trips to various parks in the Region, particularly those in Indiana, his native state.

24. Superintendent [John C. W. Riddle], Lincoln Boyhood, to Assistant Director [George A. Palmer], Mid—Atlantic Region, February 3, 1975.

25. Ibid.

26. Baird interview.

27. Evansville Journal, February 21, 1980; and Banton interview.

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

29. Norman D. Hellmers, letter to author, December 5, 1986.

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid.