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Mark McDonald – Friday, Jan. 29th & Friday, Feb. 5th – “An Evening with Mark
McDonald”
Elkhart, Illinois, The Elkhart Historical
Society presents: “An
Evening with Mark McDonald”, two dinner-lectures at Elkhart’s Wild Hare Café, each starting at
5:30p on Friday: January 29th(),
& February 5th, 2016
(Lincoln Daily News, 22 Jan., 2016)
McDonald has become a staple in many peoples television preferences due
to his award winning, “Illinois Stories”, Program.
Mark has worked in television and media relations for more than 30 years
as a news reporter and anchor, public affairs specialist and now, as an
Emmy award-winning chronicler of life in Central and West-Central
Illinois. If he can snare an interview with Barack Obama, he will have
the distinction of having interviewed our past 4 presidents at some time
in their careers. While he enjoyed his positions in television news and
media affairs, his present job as producer and host of “Illinois
Stories” is his favorite.
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Dr. Michael Burlingame – Friday February 26th – Life and
Times of Abraham Lincoln
Friday, February 26, at 5:30p
will be the second scheduled dinner lecture
which will also be a book signing with Michael Burlingame, who with
his associate Robert Shaw created a spectacular book, “A Day Long To
Be Remembered - - Lincoln in Gettysburg”.
Dr. Burlingame is an internationally renowned scholar who has published
numerous books on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. His most recent
work, “Abraham Lincoln Traveled This Way—The America Lincoln Knew” is a
look back through the window of time into Lincoln's world. Burlingame
received a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University and is the
holder of the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln
Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield where he has taught
since 2009.
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Paul Beaver -- Friday, March 18th &
Friday, April 1st– The Scully’s and the
Irish of Logan County
The 5th dinner lectures will be
on Friday
April 1st
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presentation, “William
Scully’s Prairie and the People Who Farmed It.”
This will be a fascinating look at the impact the Scully
family had on farming and Logan County.
Lincoln College Professor Emeritus and great friend of the Elkhart
Historical Society, Paul Beaver, is the author of a fascinating book on
the Scully impact on Logan County. Paul is a member of the Abraham
Lincoln Association, and was one of the founders of the Logan County
Abraham Lincoln Heritage Foundation.
He was selected on four occasions by the Illinois State
Department of Tourism to be “Lincoln Scholar in Residence” to travel
with the Lincoln Heritage Trail Travel Writer's
group touring “Lincoln Country” in Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana.
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