The Official Website of the

Lincoln Society in Peekskill

Founded 1903

John Curran, President
P.O. Box 2097
Peekskill, N.Y. 10566

"Dedicated to perpetuating the name, ideals, and memory of Abraham Lincoln and to foster and encourage patriotism"

2006 Parade (above).

105th Anniversary Parade Scheduled

 Saturday, February 28, 2009

Mark your calendars to celebrate Lincoln's 200th Birthday

with the Lincoln Society in Peekskill on

 Saturday, February 28, 2009

10:00 AM

Gather 9:30 AM at Lincoln Exedra, South Street, Peekskill, NY.

Ceremonies begin at 10:00 AM

Civil War military and civilian re-enactors invited and welcome: Contact Paul Martin, 914-245-8903 for more information.

Presentation of Colors, Boy Scout Troop No. 1 Peekskill, NY

Traditional Wreath laying

Parade through downtown to Lincoln Depot, South Water Street, Peekskill, NY. Site of Lincoln's speech on February 19, 1861

Traditional Ceremonies

Re-enactment of Lincoln's speech. To be done on the ACTUAL spot where it occurred 147 years ago.

Tour of Lincoln Depot


Scheduled speaker for Dinner Dance 2009: Harold Holzer: February 28, 2009.


CONTACT: Herb Schneider, 914-737-0139
email Herb Schneider

or, Carolyn Geisel, 914-739-8815

Re-enactors, Please contact Paul Martin, 914-245-8903 for more information.
email Paul Martin

Click here for photos of Celebration 2008

Click here for photos of Celebration 2008

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

2007 Speaker, Debbie Applegate

About our Speaker:

Vice Chairman, U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

Prominent Lincoln author & scholar

Vice President, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Holzer has authored, co-authored, and edited 30 books: The Lincoln Image (1984); Changing the Lincoln Image (1985); and The Confederate Image, (1987), all with Mark E. Neely, Jr. and Gabor S. Boritt; The Lincoln Family Album (1990), Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art (1993), and The Union Image (2000) with Neely; and Lincoln on Democracy (1990) with Mario M. Cuomo. He has also published The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1993); Washington and Lincoln Portrayed (1993); Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President (1993); Witness to War (1996); The Civil War Era (1996); The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President (1998); The Union Preserved (with Daniel Lorello, 1999), The Lincoln Forum: Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, and the Civil War (co-edited with John Y. Simon and William Pederson, 1999); Lincoln as I Knew Him (1999); Lincoln Seen and Heard (2000); Abraham Lincoln, The Writer (2000, named to the Children's Literature Choice List, and the Bank Street "Best Children's Books of the Year"); Prang's Civil War: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang (2001), State of the Union: New York and the Civil War (2002); The Lincoln Forum: Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln (co-edited with John Y. Simon, 2002); and The President is Shot! The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2004). His book Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (2004), won a 2005 Lincoln Prize, the most prestigious award in the field.

Holzer's Latest books are Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln as Originally Reported in the New York Times, co-edited with David Herbert Donald (St. Martin's Press, 2005), which presents for the first time in a single volume the original press coverage Lincoln elicited in the country's newspaper of record, with expert introductions and commentary by Holzer and Donald; The Battle of Hampton Roads: New Perspectives on the U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia (co-edited with Tim Mulligan); The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (co-authored with Edna Greene Medford and Frank J. Williams); a new and enlarged edition of The Lincoln Family Album, co-authored with Mark E. Neely, Jr.; Lincoln in the Collections of the Indiana Historical Society; Lincoln Revisited (2007), a new volume of Lincoln Forum essays co-edited with John Y. Simon and Dawn Vogel; Lincoln's White House Secretary: The Adventurous Life of William O.Stoddard (2007); and Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and The Thirteenth Amendment, co-edited with Sarah Vaughn Gabbard.

In addition, Holzer has written more than 400 articles for both popular magazines and scholarly journals, including Life Magazine, American Heritage (where he serves as a Contributing Editor), Civil War Times, American History Illustrated, North & South, Blue & Gray, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.

For more information on Harold Holzer visit his website at HaroldHolzer.com

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