News about the Lincoln Highway.
A new concrete platform for Mr. Lincoln is already in place as a result of a restoration project along Route 30 (U.S. Highway 30). But Morris said a new dark granite pedestal, which is coming from India, is needed which will add another $15,000 to the project.
Society President Anne Elise Morris said: "The old one was not usable. It didn't pass the structural engineer's test, and you're certainly not going to have a beautiful new statue and a new viewing area to set it in -- and then have the part that holds them together in poor shape."
President Morris and the others, however, could not have anticipated this new wave of statue destruction that hit this year with the "woke" community. She said: "I believe that most people are not perfect and every decision has a back story to it. Looking back 150 years ago, although Lincoln was not a perfect man, he certainly did get the ball rolling to free three-and-a-half-million African-American slaves. And he did what he had to do to save the Union. If anybody deserved to have a statue honoring them, it's Abraham Lincoln."
Agreed. --RoadDog
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