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The Official Website of the Lincoln Society in Peekskill Founded 1903 Jackie Fitzpatrick, President "Dedicated to perpetuating the name, ideals, and memory of Abraham Lincoln and to foster and encourage patriotism"   2006 Parade (above). 106th Anniversary Parade Scheduled Saturday, February 6, 2010 Mark your calendars to celebrate Lincoln's 201st Birthday with the Lincoln Society in Peekskill on Saturday, February 6, 2010 from the train carrying him from Albany to NYC and on to Washington. Parade begins shortly thereafter Because of the Route 9 construction we will be unable to march from the Lincoln Exedra to the Lincoln Depot as in year's past. Parade from modern train station to Lincoln Depot, South Water Street, Peekskill, NY. Site of Lincoln's speech on February 19, 1861 Click here for photos of Celebration 2008 Click here for photos of Celebration 2007
Lincoln and Civil War Painting Art Exhibit, by Paul R. Martin III Lincoln Sculpture Exhibit, by Richard Masloski Open Bar all evening. Cocktails 6:00 - 7:00 Dinner and dancing to follow. $95.00 per guest, Black tie invited RSVP by January 27, 2010 ALL Funds will support the Lincoln Society in Peekskill! Special pricing for Re-enactors attending the dinner dance in period clothing or uniforms. Please contact Paul Martin, 914-245-8903. email Paul Martin or CONTACT: Jackie Fitzpatrick, 914-788-3439 email Jackie Fitzpatrick or, Tony Czarnecki, 914-528-2053 Click here for photos of Celebration 2007 PARADE 2006 Click here for photos of Parade 2006 CELEBRATION 2005 Click here for photos of Celebration 2005 
Kunhardt has co-authored two books on Abraham Lincoln—a best-selling biography and an extensive look at his legacy—and in the Lincoln bicentennial year is currently working on a third. He is the co-author of Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography (1992), P.T. Barnum: America’s Greatest Showman (1995), The American President (2000), and Looking For Lincoln (2008), the companion volume of PBS’s upcoming Special by the same name. He also has more than fifteen documentaries and documentary series to his credit, including ABC’s "Lincoln" (1992); Discovery’s "Insanity Files" (1994); and PBS’s "American President" (2000), "Echoes from the White House" (2001), "Freedom: A History of US" (2003), and "Mandate: The President and The People" (2005). Over the years he has spoken, among many locations, at the Smithsonian Institute, the White House Historical Society, the 92nd Street Y, Yale University, the New-York Historical Society, and the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. He has appeared on the Today Show, the Charlie Rose Show, National Public Radio, CNN, Larry King Live, the Diane Rehm Show, and many others. Kunhardt is currently a Bard Center Fellow in Annandale, New York, where he is teaching on Lincoln in American Memory, and on the life and  Order your tickets NOW for a wonderful prize! Need not be present to win! 2 Nights accomodations at the Fabulous EQUINOX HOTEL in Manchester, Vermont. $500.00 value. 2 passes to HILDENE, Robert Todd Lincoln's Historic Home in Manchester Vermont, plus a years membership in the Friends of Hildene Society. $100.00 value. Tickets just $25.00 each, no limit! Call Robert McFarlane at 914-472-4770 to purchase tickets. NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN! All funds will support the Lincoln Society in Peekskill.  An original sketch (left) by Paul R. Martin III and sculpture of Abraham Lincoln. by Richard Masloski. (right) Both of the artists' images were inspired by the historical writings describing Lincoln's visit to Peekskill. Martin's sketch was used for the LSIP's 2005 invitation card and is currently available as a limited edition fine art print. Masloski's sculpture will soon be on permanent display at the new Lincoln Train Depot Museum along the Peekskill waterfront. COMING SOON!  On SATURDAY October, 27, 2007 at 11:00 AM, the Lincoln Society in Peekskill dedicated the new Lincoln statue and monument at the Lincoln Train Depot Museum in Peekskill. Former Governor George Pataki, Peekskill mayor John Testa, Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer, sculptor Richard Masloski and other dignitaries and citizens were on hand as a beautiful sculpture of our 16th president was unveiled and dedicated to commemorate president elect Lincoln's stop and speech in Westchester County in 1861. Click here  Saturday, September 12, 2009, 10AM-4PM and 7PM-10PM for more info visit www.lincolndepotmuseum.org "That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 
Lincoln was elected President in November of 1860. During his trip from Illinois to Washington for his inauguration, he traveled by train east to Albany and then south through the Hudson valley to NYC, Philadelphia and Baltimore. At his stop in Peekskill NY , at the Peekskill Train station, Lincoln addressed a supportive crowd from a specially prepared platform erected on a baggage car. There, he sensed the difficult times the nation appeared to be heading towards, when he said: “In regard to the difficulties which lie before me and our beloved country, if I can only be as generously and unanimously sustained as the demonstrations I have witnessed indicate I shall be, then in my management of public affairs, I shall not fail: Without your sustaining hands I am sure that neither I nor any other man can hope to surmount these difficulties. I trust that in the course I shall pursue, I shall be sustained not only by the party that elected me, but by the free, intelligent and earnest support of the patriotic people of the whole country.” Michael E. Griest as Lincoln, recites Lincoln's address to the people of Peekskill.  “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The Mystic Chords of Memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” Historical Artist, Paul R. Martin III recites part of Lincoln's First Inaugural Address at The Lincoln Society's Annual Dinner in February of 2001.  “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan-to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves and with all nations.” Lincoln' Second Inaugural Address. Peeksill Mayor John Testa addresses the crowd at the rededication of the Lincoln Exedra Monument on South Street with LS board member John Rainey.  “When those little gray eyes and face were lighted up by the inward soul on fires of emotion, then it was that all those apparently ugly or homely features sprang into organs of beauty. Sometimes it did appear to me that Lincoln was just fresh from the hands of his creator.” William H. Herndon Peekskill Train Station and Lincoln Portrait by Paul R. Martin III LINCOLN SOCIETY IN PEEKSKILL (Founded 1903) John Curran, President P.O. Box 2097 Peekskill, N.Y. 10566 | Celebration 2005 | parade 2006 | Statue Dedication | parade 2007 | Thomas Craughwell | Harold Holzer | | Return Home | Events Schedule | Great Links | FAQ Page | Contact Us | Lincoln Depot Museum | About Us | Lincoln,s Speeches | Lincoln Statue | Celebration 2008 | |
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