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Creation Date
5-1-2005
Description
BRC Imagination Arts -- the same organization that contributed to the design of DisneyWorld -- helped design the Abraham Lincoln Museum. The result is a new kind of presidential museum that encourages immersive, interactive experiences. One of the museum's outstanding features is lifelike figures set in carefully reconstructed settings.
The photo at right shows a replica of the White House facade. Here Abraham Lincoln greets visitors as though to welcome them to his world.
In the background, leaning against a column, stands John Wilkes Booth, who on April 11th, 1865, changed his plan to avenge the South: rather than abduct the president, he would assassinate him. Booth had just heard Mr. Lincoln's speech outlining reunion and reconstruction, and Booth vowed that it would be the president's last.
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Photos and text © Gleaves Whitney 2005
