Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

An interesting exhibit opens today at the New York Historical Society, "Lincoln and New York". It seems that New Yorkers had a chilly relationship with the revered leader. In a city with 174 daily and weekly publications, New York was a place of strong opinions and Lincoln was a polarizing force that didn't mince words. Walt Whitman commented on the “ominous silence” that greeted Lincoln when he visited New York in 1861. No overt hostility but Whitman wrote, the "silence of the crowd was very significant,” compared with the “wild, tumultuous hurrahs” that typically greeted distinguished personages. In 1864 New York was on the wrong side of history when Lincoln received only 33 percent of the city's vote.

Lincoln and New York opens today at The New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street.

Any excuse to draw Lincoln...What a face!

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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Lincoln.

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone 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."

Abraham Lincoln

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