Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial News

This is West Texas? McKittrick Canyon in Guadalupe Mountains National Park. NPS Photo by Cookie Ballou Fall is officially here in the northern hemisphere, and for many travelers that means getting outdoors to enjoy the weathera 'and some fall color.

The site, 35 miles east of Evansville and operated by the National Park Service, is offering free admission as part of National Public Lands Day.

A Lincoln Jubilee is scheduled next week and on Sept. 6 in Spencer County, Ind., culminating the area's two-year Lincoln Bicentennial celebration.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial will host the final speaker in its series of special speakers Sunday who have been invited to the park this year as part of the observation of the Lincoln Bicentennial.

The spirit of Abraham Lincoln has hovered in the hills of Southern Indiana, where he lived from 1816 until 1830, for nearly 200 years.

After almost two years of celebrating, the Spencer County Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee will host a culminating Lincoln jubilee Aug.

"My father ... removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year.

My wife, 17-year-old daughter and I had been to Florida twice already this year; once for a soccer tournament, the other for Spring Break.

Summer's in full swing this weekend with a Street Strut, "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Superman events.

Entry fees will be waived the weekends of June 20-21, July 18-19 and August 15-16, according to a news release issued by the memorial.

A new monument in honor of Abraham Lincoln's Hoosier youth will be dedicated and unveiled Friday, June 12, at Lincoln State Park.

The National Park Service is looking to stimulate summer vacations at national parks.

Follow in the footsteps of our nation's 16th president by taking a journey from his childhood home to the city that saw the start of his legal career.

The release of a penny depicting Abraham Lincoln's days as a Hoosier created traffic jams in tiny Lincoln City as nearly 3,000 people, including coin collectors and Lincoln enthusiasts, lined up to get the newly minted coin.