History field trip: Lincoln

Yesterday the kids and I enjoyed an afternoon at the Atlanta History Center for their homeschool day featuring their current special exhibit, "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition".  It was fascinating...I have always been fascinated with Lincoln and the Civil War era and they had some incredible artifacts at this exhibit.  The kids also enjoyed making some related crafts...

...Abigail was pleased to see this $5 bill display, since she recently reviewed this in math class...

 ...and we also enjoyed the lovely walking trails.  We also walked through the farm they have set up on their campus, where we got to see a blacksmith working, a woman spinning and one weaving on a floor loom, a farmhouse decked out in period furniture and accoutrements, women baking some of Lincoln's favorite foods in the separate kitchen, a cabin that would have been typical of a slave cabin of the time, and we also watched a performance of a man portraying 23 year old Abraham Lincoln as he was running for a seat in the Illinois house.

If this Exhibition comes to your area (it is put on by the Library of Congress), it's definitely a must-see.  We thoroughly enjoyed it.  (It was so good, in fact, that I'm hoping that Bruce and I can get a babysitter so we can go down and peruse it before it leaves!)