By Ann Nichols
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About three years ago, local attorney Jeff Boehm began reading a number of books about Abraham Lincoln. He became fascinated by this president who invited so many of his detractors to be in his cabinet of advisors. But it was Carl Sandburg’s six-volume account of Lincoln that really engaged him.
“The strategies of the Civil War don’t interest me as much as the personalities and motivations of the major figures in our history,” said Mr. Boehm.
Having already acquired a bust of Thomas Jefferson and a portrait of George Washington, Mr. Boehm wanted to add a likeness of Lincoln to his collection. However, all he could find were photographs. And, all but one of these depicted the late president as a sad and serious man.