Nov 16 2007
SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Springfield’s only claim to fame is its most famous resident, one Mr. Abraham Lincoln. About a hundred and fifty years ago a young lawyer rode into town and settled there, when he arrived he was just like any other young man of those days but left as president of America, he lived there for a twenty five years. The city revolves Abraham Lincoln, the house where he lived with his wife is very well preserved, and thousands of tourists come to the city to see the house. The furniture has been painstakingly restored just as it was when he lived there by the national parks service. On the 4th of July the city hosts the ‘Lincoln fest’, last year it attracted over a hundred and fifty visitors, the fest boasts of sound-and-light shows as well as Lincoln impersonators at the major sites. After President Lincoln passed on the town growth was somewhat thwarted, it concentrated on preserving the memory of the man and nothing else. The old court house where Lincoln practiced law is still there, the court room has books and paper stacked on the lawyers and judges tables as though there was a case still in progress and the court has merely been adjourned.
