Lincoln recalled in Peekskill, of course
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- February
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The Field Library in Peekskill is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth Centennial with a gallery exhibit throughout the month and a talk by an artist this Sunday. Tomorrow, Feb. 12, is Lincoln’s actual birth date so this very good timing indeed. Peekskill is known as a site of a Lincoln visit and later this month the Lincoln Society holds its annual Lincoln parade.
At the library, though, Yorktown resident and artist Paul R. Martin III will be displaying “Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and the American Civil War” until Feb. 24. There will be a reception in the library gallery from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday with Martin to help put his work into perspective.
Martin presents colored-pencil portraits of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and landscapes of Civil War battles showing the historic people and places.
Martin is a board member of the Lincoln Society in Peekskill and the Yorktown Historical History, and is Vice-President of the Lincoln Depot Foundation. As the President and Program Director of the Rockland County Civil War Roundtable, he was responsible for securing a $250,000 grant from the New York State Senate for the repair and restoration of more than 100 New York State monuments that still stand on the fields of the Battle of Gettysburg. (To the right, is one of Martin’s works from his Web site.)
Other related artwork is also on display in the gallery.
The Field Library is at 4 Nelson Avenue, Peekskill. For further information please call Sibyl Canaan, Library Director at (914) 737-7110.
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on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at 5:45 pm by Barbara Nackman.
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