Two events Saturday at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library will supplement the national traveling exhibition documenting the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln.
At 1 p.m., re-enactors will set up equipment and materials to illustrate life during the Civil War. They will showcase both North and South as Company H of the Tennessee Regiment and the 19th U.S. Regulars.
At 2:30 p.m., Lincoln presenter Dennis Boggs will bring the 16th president to life in a program for youth. Boggs is a winner of the national Lincoln Look-Alike and Oratorical Competition.
The exhibition, “Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times,” continues at the downtown library through June 23. Organized by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, this free exhibition goes beyond the public image of Lincoln to focus on the evolution of his beliefs and his impact on the nation. It traces his path from a self-educated, rough-hewn lawyer with virtually no administrative experience to the president who guided a divided nation through crises of slavery, secession and civil war.
For more information, call the library’s Local History & Genealogy Department at 757-5317.