Lincoln’s Fake Kentucky Home: Now It Belongs To The Ages
Published by mr.president September 25th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMORThe US Mint clambers aboard the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial with an offering of four exciting new designs to replace that tired old Lincoln Memorial.
Most problematic is the salute to Lincoln’s Kentucky birthplace, whose centerpiece is a cabin sometimes billed as the place of Lincoln’s birth.
The National Park Service administers the site, but even they acknowledge Lincoln never lived there.
