Back to KentuckyMay 30, 2010
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| After the Boyhood Home I went to the nearby town of Santa Claus and played golf at the Christmas Lake Golf Course. It was a nice course but I’ve been playing too many days in a row and between being tired from that and playing in 90 plus degrees again, I had a very tough time. Then I moved back to Kentucky were there are two National Park System sites for Lincoln. The biggest is the one of his actual birthplace; the other, about 10 miles away, is the first home he remembered living in prior to moving to Indiana. It took me awhile to figure out that there were two places as the GPS was telling me to turn right and the roadside signs were pointing left to go to the Lincoln Historical Site but I only knew of one site. After everything the GPS has put me through lately I trusted the road signs and then got the additional information from there. The actual birthplace at Sinking Springs has a big monument to Lincoln. The childhood home at Knob Hill just has some information signs and a cabin. Of course, the one I ended up at was the childhood home and I didn’t backtrack to the other one so I didn’t get to see the memorial which I did hear is quite impressive but it was getting too late in the day. |
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