This is very, VERY PECULIAR

There was a LINCOLN MUSEUM in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It contained the second largest repository of Lincoln-related original photos, pamphlets, clippings, books and documents like the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment. It was one of the key places to research Abraham Lincoln as well as a place for visitors to learn about Lincoln and his times and legacy. The collection and museum had its start about 1928. It was second only to the federal government's collection.

Now it gets peculiar.

The museum expanded, including all nature of computer and interactive innovations.

Then, it seems all of the sudden, there's the sign of the cut-throat: Index finger moving rapidly across the front of the neck.

"The Lincoln Museum closed on June 30, 2008, at the direction of the Lincoln Financial Foundation, the charitable arm of the Lincoln Financial Group." [Page 27, Lincoln's Lessons: Reflection of America's Greatest Leader, edited by Frank J. Williams and William D. Pederson, copyrighted 2009, Southern Illinois University Press]

Lincoln Financial Group is headquarterd in Philadelphia, PA. Saturday, we noticed during the ARMY-NAVY football game, the football field in Philly has sold its naming rights to the Lincoln Financial Group.

God Bless America!

Money for football field advertising, but damn the museum.

So these folks have spent big bucks gobbling up materials on Lincoln and the era of Abolition and Emancipation, the preservation of the Union, and granting equal rights, and now that material is made unavailable for educating Americans? WHY???

Lincoln Financial started out as an insurance company and use Abraham Lincoln's likeness/image as part of their logo.

An article on the museum's closure:

http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=28147

P.S. 2009 was the Lincoln Bicentennial. So, uh, is there some symbolism to closing this Lincoln resource so it wouldn't be available for the bicentennial? Just asking.