Voice in the Wall Productions presents a happy 200th-birthday salute to Abraham Lincoln on Friday, February 13, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. The program, produced by Eric Vollmer, offers a variety of speeches and songs that pay homage to Lincoln. Lee Boek presents Lord Buckley’s Hip variation on the ‘Gettysburg Address;’ John Campbell sings and plays Civil War Era songs; Madison Miller reads a young girl’s letter of advice to Lincoln to ‘grow whiskers,’ and recites ‘Sweet Evelina,’ a Civil War Soldier’s Lament; Joshua Corwin makes his own original speech in homage to Lincoln and Obama. William H. Bassett presents Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address; Walt Whitman’s ‘O Captain, My Captain’ and a tribute to Abe by poet Carl Sandburg; songcologist Gary Gordon weighs in with satirical reflections past and present; Fred Starner adds folk music to bring Abe’s message of Liberty home; and Kate Friedrichs reads Steven Bartel’s Civil War book ‘Pray Tell, Private Hell.’
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