Lincoln Reloaded

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Lincoln Reloaded

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Lincoln Reloaded?

Every age tells the old stories a new way. Historians and poets, ad-writers and cab-drivers re-tell the past from new points of view. It never ends. The characters and events of the past are vessels of meaning that succeeding generations fill and empty and refill. Lincoln reloaded. It's the human spirit in its hunger and joy, trying to make sense of itself.

See links below to new visions of
Abraham Lincoln by playwright, poet, and performer Gary Moore.

Grew up in log cabin. Right.
Saved the Union. Check.
Freed the slaves. Sort of.
Made love a thousand feet above the White House?

New Lincoln Visions by Gary Moore

BURNING IN CHINA -- a Dramatic Monologue: An American professor goes to China with a hundred copies of the Gettysburg Address in his suitcase and finds students yearning for "government of the people, by the people, for the people." The Great Emancipator stars in China's first live performance of rap music but falls silent at the tragedy in Tiananmen Square.

LONG LANKIN'S CURSE -- a Play: Her dying father sees Lincoln as a victim of cosmic atonement, but to pregnant sixteen-year-old Bethany, Uncle Abe's the only one who will listen.

KING OF THE JEWS -- a Performance Poem: What happens when Lincoln appears from the sky to show desperate little Billy a giant heart "blood-ripe with veins and two feet wide"?

ABE ASCENDING -- a Novel: A kidnapped son and a woman from Lincoln's past; between subterranean seances and balloon ascensions appears an adventurous Lincoln you never saw before.

THE TONGUE OF THEIR GLADNESS -- a Play: The ungainly twenty-six-year-old Abe Lincoln loved Ann Rutledge, the brainy belle of New Salem village. And she loved him. But she was engaged to another man.

LINCOLN WAS AN ALIEN! -- a Rap Video: Are we all just sojourners here on our way through the cosmos? With space music by Fred Wilber.

Lincolns in the stars by Ann Cardinal and Julia Stitely-Moore

History gives us materials we turn into myths,

stories we use to explain the world.

Gary Moore interview on Blog Critics

See rapper Chingo Bling do his Lincoln thing!

As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

We must disenthrall ourselves.....

Abraham Lincoln