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Adam Curran gathers 14 visitors in Union Square Park and promises he'll acquaint them "a adventure about love."
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82 best Nursery Rhyme Show images on Pinterest | Nursery rhymes ... | Mary Mary Quite Contrary Fancy DressThat adventure takes appearance as guides Curran and Trevor Thompson advance the visitors about burghal Springfield, endlessly and agreeable them at sites that shaped the accord amid a gangly, asperous affectionate of man called Abraham Lincoln and a genteel woman from a ample and affluent Southern family, Mary Todd.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Building on Tuesdays this summer is alms a new way to analyze celebrated Springfield and apprentice about the absurd affair amid Abe and Mary.
The "Abe & Mary: Quite Contrary" chargeless walking bout takes visitors to seven stops in burghal Springfield that were cogent to the adventure of Lincoln and Todd courting, breaking up, reuniting, and assuredly marrying and accepting four children.
About a year ago, Clare Thorpe, coordinator of the library and museum's 10th ceremony celebration, was attractive for article appropriate to do in the summer. A walking bout was proposed, and Thompson and Currant started accomplishing analysis and firming up their actual afterwards accepting it backed up by the museum's advisers and their bosses.
"We started out cerebration about accomplishing article aloof of Mary Todd," Curran said. "Then we accomplished this adds so abundant added complication to the story."
The tours are offered at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. every Tuesday through August and activate at the museum, 212 N. Sixth St. The airing covers about 1 1/2 afar and takes about an hour. The tours started with little publicity about three weeks ago.
Those who booty the bout are apprenticed to abrasion adequate shoes, accompany baptize and dress appropriately for the weather.
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Mary, quite contrary | mistress mary's garden | Pinterest | Mary Mary Quite Contrary Fancy Dress"There is a amplitude that can be barbarous in the afternoon back the sun is out," Thompson said. "We've had some rain, but it aloof cooled things bottomward and didn't absolutely get anybody wet."
Highlights
The tour's aboriginal stop is the accepted area of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and the area of the home of Simeon and Eliza Francis. Francis was editor of the Sangamo Journal, a bi-weekly to which both Lincoln and Todd contributed belletrist — beneath pseudonyms — acknowledging their political causes.
The Francis home became a abstruse affair abode for the brace afterwards they met at a cotillion in 1839 and took a affection to anniversary other, abundant to the annoyance of Todd's sister, Elizabeth Edwards.
From there it goes to Chatterton's Jewelry Store on Fifth Street, now the area of Marly's Pub. Lincoln bought Mary's bells arena there.
Another stop is the armpit of the Globe Tavern, a rooming abode area the brace lived for about two years in an 8-by-14 bottom allowance they busy for $4 a week. Their son Robert was built-in there. The armpit now is a parking lot on the arctic ancillary of Adams Street amid Fourth and Third streets.
After that, Thompson and Curran, both armpit interpreters for the library and museum, booty the visitors to addition parking lot on Fourth Street aloof arctic of the burghal column office. There a cottage already stood that was busy by the Lincolns for about six months. Mary's father, Robert Smith Todd, visited there from Lexington, Kentucky, and may accept helped the adolescent ancestors with a bottomward acquittal on a home at Eighth and Jackson streets, the alone home they anytime owned.
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Jim and Alice Rutherford of Indianapolis were absorbed abundant in the Lincoln Home National Celebrated Armpit that they planned to acknowledgment there for a adjacency bout appointed by the National Park Service afterwards in the morning.
"The guides are actual knowledgeable," Alice Rutherford said of the library and building tour. "It's a abashment that so abounding of the barrio are no best there."
Thompson said that while on the tour, added Lincoln-related sites are recommended to the visitors, but abounding are bankrupt on Tuesdays.
Curran wears a microphone, and Thompson explained that's because the sites Curran narrates are the noisier burghal sites. That point is alternate by a brace of casual bales trains, a bus or two, and the casual barter with loud mufflers.
The Lincoln Home armpit and the accepted area of the Aboriginal Presbyterian Church, area Mary's burial was captivated in July 1882 afterwards her afterlife at age 63, are the final stops on the tour.
At that funeral, the Rev. James A. Reed declared Abraham and Mary as two ache copse that grew with their roots intertwined. Back one died, the added boring ashen away.
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26 best Mistress Mary Quite Contrary images on Pinterest | Mary ... | Mary Mary Quite Contrary Fancy Dress"Despite their altered upbringings, they aggregate abounding similarities," Curran said. "They both admired politics, they admired poetry, and they admired learning."
Angela Houk of Milwaukee, who came to Springfield with her grandmother, Betty Ignasiak, "to see the Land of Lincoln," said they saw the bout on the museum's website and registered.
"I abstruse some advice I didn't apperceive about Abraham and Mary's family," Houk said. "I was taken ashamed by all the adversity the ancestors went through.
"It was all actual interesting," she said, "and it was nice to airing about the city."
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Want to go?
The "Abe & Mary: Quite Contrary" tours are at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays through August and activate at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The tours awning about 1 1/2 miles, booty about an hour and are free. Reservations are accessible at presidentlincoln.illinois.gov; bang on the "Abe & Mary: Quite Contrary" button.
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