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Lincoln: Circuit Towns
From Episode number 806, Blacksmiths, Storytellers, Lincoln: Circuit Towns,
air date Thursday, April 30, 2009
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As part of the Lincoln Bicentennial, and in connection with WILL-TV’s documentary Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency, we’ve created a series of segments looking at how Lincoln’s years spent as a traveling lawyer on the Illinois Eighth Judicial Circuit helped make him one of our nation’s greatest presidents. We look at what life was like in the mid-1800s in the towns along the circuit and how Lincoln’s time spent there helped shape him as a lawyer, politician and man.
Segment duration: 05:32
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Producer: Steve Drake and Alison Davis Wood
Editor: Steve Drake and Tristan Riddell
This segment is filed in these categories: History • Illinois Culture/History
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