ALTON - The Lincoln/Douglas Soiree set for 6:30 p.m. Friday at Temple Banquet Center, 300 State St., will article Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas impersonators, while music and cake. Tickets rate $35 each, and some wait for the event, said Glenda Link, coordinator of the soiree.
Link said she expects an enchanting dusk as department of the festivities abutting the Lincoln-Douglas Debate 150th anniversary events in Alton, set for Saturday and Sunday. "We are having a Lincoln pastry made from a cookbook about Lincoln," she said. "Cathy Croxton, a dulcimer player, will enjoy oneself epoch music. The re-enactors will be at one's fingertips to interact with nation at the dinner.
We will have pork chops from the Carrollton Brass Door (Restaurant). We would sympathy to have a deep line on Friday night." Proceeds from the affair will forward the Alton Museum of History and Art. Link is an Alton Museum trustees member. "We are enjoying working on it," she said.
"It is the 150th anniversary of the debates between Lincoln and Douglas. We want this weekend to be special. It is weighty for Alton. It is wonderful for our children to be able to episode re-enactment of an incident that happened 150 years ago.
It is captivating how they handled elections so differently then." Charlene Gill, Alton Museum president emeritus, said she went to a series of deliberate re-enactments in 1994 throughout the state, and the activities this weekend cause to remember her of that time. She said she looks send on to the result at Temple Banquet Center.
"I of it will be a great evening," she said.
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