Ultra-Right Nuts Still Hate Lincoln!?

Lincoln bust missing
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On Independence Day in 1909, the centennial year of Abraham Lincoln's birth, an ornate monument was dedicated to him in Scranton.

But sometime in the early decades of the 20th century, the 16-foot-tall structure simply vanished. No one still living seems to know where it went. ...

Local historians recently confirmed the memorial's existence in newspaper archives. Now they're trying to figure out what happened to it.

The monument was situated along the shore of man-made Lake Lincoln. One theory holds that when Lake Lincoln was renovated and expanded in the '20s, officials realized the monument was in the way and took it down. If that's true, there's little hope that the memorial's intricately carved stone base has survived. But the bronze bust may still be out there.


Trojan statue at Lincoln High defaced (in Leon County) [url]
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Michael Turner stated he and a juvenile went to Lincoln High School with the intent to spray paint the statue. Turner stated that he used yellow and blue spray paint, painting the letters "GHH" on the stone base of the statue and spray painting the Lincoln High School sign at the front of the school with "Seniors 08".


Lincoln Statue Decapitated
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The Abe Lincoln statue in Lithia Park is headless again.

Ashland police park patrol officer Nathan Twiss found Lincoln's head and hand missing Sunday morning. He said the vandalism took place sometime between 9 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Don Robertson, director of Parks and Recreation, said this was the fourth time Lincoln has been decapitated since 1915, when Gwin S. Butler donated the statue to the city to memorialize his stepfather, pioneer Jacob Thompson, who moved to Ashland in 1847. The six-foot-tall piece was originally sculpted in Florence, Italy, by A. Frilli.

One incident occurred in 1967. Hamid Ghavam, a Southern Oregon University student, repaired the head and removed blue paint from the statue in 1968.

Another beheading occurred more than 27 years ago and parks officials relegated Lincoln's likeness to a storage facility for more than a decade.

The statue was restored in 1990 and reintroduced to the public with a new head on its shoulders.

Robertson said the latest decapitation appeared deliberate. He said there had to be more than one person involved and that the vandals chiseled away at the head and then sawed off the metal rod used to secure the head.


Confederate group offers Jefferson Davis statue for Lincoln site
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A Southern heritage group that opposed a statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the American Civil War Center is offering to donate a $100,000 statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis for the same site.

Brag Bowling, a spokesman for the Virginia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the gift is intended to celebrate Davis's birth 200 years ago this month in Kentucky.

It is not, he said, payback for the Lincoln statue unveiled in 2003.


Newspaper cover photo shows "noose" around neck of Lincoln statue Read about the uproar here:
The actual story is also interesting: Ken Kahn, director of the arts council, talks about the impact of a new Lincoln-themed sculpture garden. http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-sculpturegarden.artjun10,0,6009056.story
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The theme is Abraham Lincoln — 11 of the statues are abstract interpretations of highlights from Lincoln's life, including the creation of the transcontinental railway and the emancipation of the slaves. Only two are actual depictions of the 16th president, whose 200th birthday next February is expected to draw even bigger crowds.

The turkey and the horse have their own stories — Lincoln was the first president to pardon a turkey on Thanksgiving and he rode horses in his youth. ...

Minor setbacks delayed the opening by several months. ... "A Welcome Conversation" — a larger than life statue of a young Lincoln valued at about $30,000 — was stolen from storage before it could be installed. It has since been reconstructed.