The McLean County Museum of History plans to unveil a new mural at the east steps of the building to honor the 168th anniversary of the Lost Speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln.
Candace Summers, Director of Education with the McLean County Museum of History, explains that the mural will be dedicated on Thursday, May 29th at 5:25 PM. This time and date were chosen because it is the same time and date as when President Lincoln reportedly gave his lost speech at Major's Hall in Bloomington, for the Anti-Nebraska Convention.
Summers states that the speech is called "lost" because there is no complete transcript of the address. That being said, historians have collected pieces and reports of the speech, alongside what Lincoln had said in previous speeches, to gather a summary of what the President had said.
The event will include more than just the unveiling of the mural. Summers says that the 33rd Illinois Regimental Band will be performing period-appropriate music beginning at 4:45 PM. Lincoln Scholar Guy Fraker will also be giving the opening remarks of the day.
Visit the McLean County Museum of History's east steps this Thursday at 5:25 PM to see the unveiling of the Lost Speech mural, painted by Troy Freeman of Free Sky Studios. Learn more by visiting mchistory.org/events.
