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NEWS RELEASE_________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 29, 2008 MEDIACONTACT: Melissa Miller, Executive Director 888-444-9252 [email protected] Lincoln Bicentennial Visitors Guide Now Available LINCOLN CITY, IND. - As the nation prepares to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s 200th Birthday next February, his boyhood home Spencer County, Indiana, is highlighting its Lincoln-themed attractions in a new visitors guide. Titled “Visit Lincoln’s Indiana Boyhood Home,” the brochure invites guests to trace Lincoln’s past in Spencer County, where he spent 14 formative years that transformed a frontier boy into our nation’s greatest president. It includes a list of more than 20 special events taking place in Spencer County throughout 2008 to celebrate Lincoln’s life and legacy. A complete listing of Spencer County’s special Lincoln Bicentennial events is also available at www.ThinkLincoln.org. While visiting Spencer County, people can tour a working farm and cabins typical of the structures where Lincoln lived, worked and learned. The mighty Ohio River still rolls along our scenic banks where Lincoln ferried passengers out to passing steamboats. Sites highlighted in the brochure include: Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial Lincoln Pioneer Village & Museum Lincoln State Park & Colonel Jones Home Lincoln Amphitheatre Lincoln Landing Buffalo Run Farm Lincoln Ferry Park Ohio River Scenic Route “Lincoln’s boyhood lessons and values are as relevant today as they were nearly 200 years ago,” said Melissa Miller, executive director of the Spencer County Visitors Bureau. “Here visitors can and trace the past of a man whose legacy is still forging the future.” The new Lincoln Visitors Guide is being distributed through Indiana as well as Illinois and Kentucky – other states Lincoln called home. To request a free copy of Spencer County’s Lincoln Bicentennial Visitors Guide, visit www.ThinkLincoln.org or call the Spencer County Visitors Bureau at 1-888-444-9252. .

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