lincoln

in kentucky for a couple of days planning rehab of 1931 tavern at lincoln boyhood home---they just finished restoration of a 19th century log cabin that was hauled to the site in the 1930s----neither the cabin in which lincoln was born, about ten miles away at sinking spring, nor the cabin in which he grew up at knob creek survived the nineteenth century, except maybe for a few logs that were incorporated in the replica birth cabin that they was reconstructed in the 1890s---western kentucky was still a huge mess from the ice storm----it was sad to see virtually every tree broken up, some even uprooted by the weight of 3/4" of ice---huge piles of debris still along the freeway and parts of the park remaining closed because there hasn't been money to clean it all up, three months after it happened