Two Lincolns: Boy and Man
Hodgenville, Kentucky
Hooray to Hodgenville for turning a respectable-but-dull Lincoln statue into something unique. In 1909 the town unveiled a bronze sculpture of craggy-faced Lincoln sitting in a chair by famous artist Adolph Weinman. It sat for nearly a hundred years in the town square, steadily becoming less interesting. But in 2008 a second statue was added, of Lincoln as a barefoot seven-year-old.
Young Abe sits on the opposite side of the square, a dog at his side, looking over the top of the book directly at the statue of his older self about a hundred feet away. Boy Abe's innocent face does not reveal if his vision-of-the-future is pleasant or a nightmare.
The Lincoln Museum
Lincoln Birthplace, But Not His Cabin
Grave of Lincoln's Playmate
