this is at the depot before the reading started.

here’s mary greeting her fans.

what a funny expression on abe’s face.

kevin, always keeping watch in the background, as mary continues to greet her public.

i wonder what he was thinking there – maybe how cold it was?  luckily i was busy climbing up on a big snow mound to think too much about how freezing it was.

here’s the crowd.

just another guy in the crowd…NOT!  Here’s Phil, the KING OF THE PRESIDENTIAL MUSEUM!

there was such a mob that it was hard to see kevin, but luckily he’s tall and easy to spot above the crowd.

so many people…that woman on the lower left in the pink jacket was a tv reporter; she sat right down in the snow to talk to some little kid, and when she stood up, the side and back of her (dressy and not appropriate for the weather at all) pants were wet.  that must have been fun.

hmm, it seems that the people dressed in period attire were closest to lincoln.  when i first got there, the crowd wasn’t so big but all of a sudden the place was thronged.

here’s part of the reading the first time through.

and here’s part of the third and final time through.

ta da!  very very exciting.

and here they are, marching past the civil war-era speakers.  a lovely time was had by all.