The Official Website of the

Lincoln Society in Peekskill

Founded 1903

Anthony Seideman, President
P.O. Box 2097
Peekskill, N.Y. 10566

917-881-4481

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

2010 Parade (above).

Celebrate Lincoln's 203rd Birthday

And the 151^st Anniversary of Lincoln’s visit to Peekskill,

with the Lincoln Society in Peekskill on

 Saturday, February 18, 2012

11:00 AM

 Commemorating the 151st Anniversary of Lincoln’s Inaugural Train Journey

108th Anniversary Parade Schedule

 Saturday, February 18, 2012
11:00 AM

Gather 10:30-11:00 AM at Modern Metro-north Train Station, Peekskill, NY.

Greet President elect Abraham Lincoln as he disembarks

from the train carrying him from Albany to NYC and on to Washington.

Parade begins shortly thereafter 

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

Parade from modern train station to

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

(Construction progress at the Depot may limit access, final route to be determined)


Presentation of Colors, Boy Scout Troop 164 Yorktown, NY

Traditional Wreath laying and ceremonies

Re-enactment of Lincoln's speech. To be done on the ACTUAL spot where it occurred 151 years ago.

Tour of Lincoln Depot


Scheduled speaker for Dinner Dance 2012: david Blight: February 18, 2012.


CONTACT: Tony Seideman, 917-881-4481
email Tony Seideman

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

click here for photos of 2010 Parade

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

David W. Blight is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the US Civil War and its legacy. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library.

Blight is the author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, (Harvard University Press, 2011); and A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation, (Harcourt, 2007), this book combines two newly discovered slave narratives in a volume that recovers the lives of their authors, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, as well as provides an incisive history of the story of emancipation. Blight is also the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press, 2001), which received eight book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize as well as four awards from the Organization of American Historians, including the Merle Curti prizes for both intellectual and social history. Other published works include a book of essays, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002); and Frederick Douglass's Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (LSU Press, 1989). Blight is the editor of and author of six books, including When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992); Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Bedford Books, 1993); co-editor with Robert Gooding-Williams, W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Bedford Books, 1997); co-editor with Brooks Simpson, Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era (Kent State Univ. Press, 1997); and Caleb Bingham, The Columbian Orator (orig. 1797, NYU Press, 1997), the book of oratory and antislavery writings that Frederick Douglass discovered while a youth. The edited volume, Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory, was published by Smithsonian Press in 2004 and is the companion book for the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.


Blight is also a frequent book reviewer for the Washington Post Book World, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and other newspapers, and has written many articles on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history. Blight has also been a consultant to several documentary films, including the 1998 PBS series, "Africans in America," and "The Reconstruction Era" (2004). Blight has a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and did his undergraduate degree at Michigan State University. He has also taught at Harvard University, at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, and for seven years was a public high school teacher in his hometown, Flint, Michigan. He was also senior Fulbright Professor in American Studies at the University of Munich in Germany in 1992-93.

Blight was elected as a member of the Society of American Historians in 2002. Since 2004 he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Historical Society and the board for African American Programs at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also serves on the board of advisors to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and is involved in planning numerous conferences and events to commemorate both the Lincoln anniversary and the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. In his capacity as director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, Blight organizes conferences, working groups, lectures, the administering of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and many public outreach programs regarding the history of slavery and its abolition. Blight is also an advisor to the September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York.

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to see more photos.

Saturday, September 12, 2009,  10AM-4PM and 7PM-10PM

for more info visit www.lincolndepotmuseum.org

LINCOLN SOCIETY IN PEEKSKILL
(Founded 1903)
Anthony Seideman, President
P.O. Box 2097
Peekskill, N.Y. 10566

917-881-4481