Lincoln Museum & tomb

Today we drove 45 minutes north to Springfield the capitol of Illinois to visit the Lincoln Museum & tomb.

You are limited to taking pictures inside the museum so this is all you get.  The above picture of Lincoln reading by the fireplace was taken without a flash in a dark log cabin.

Abe in buried behind and ten feet under the marble stone.  In the 1870 thieves unsuccessfully tried to Lincoln's body for a ransom and the release of a friend in prison.  They ended up joining their friend in prison.

 This statue in the entrance to Lincoln's tomb was made 6 years before the same sculpture he made for the much larger statue in Washington DC. 

Judy said she was rubbing Abe's nose for luck but I think she's picking his nose.

This was the tomb's caretakers home built in the 1870s but used as office space today.  It looks like a small castle to me.