Follow up on the J. B. Speed Art Museum lecture
My Dear Fellow Readers:
This past Sunday I had a fantastic time at the J. B. Speed Art Museum. I arrived at the museum at 12 am on Sunday in order to be able to check out the new exhibit Beyond the Log Cabin: Kentucky’s Abraham Lincoln. If you have not seen the exhibit, I highly recommended it. They have some very rare artifacts, such as Abraham Lincoln’s solid gold pocket watch made by Tiffany’s, his walking stick, his life face mask, a silk ribbon from his coffin. They also have artifacts from Mary Todd Lincoln, Thomas Lincoln, and Robert Todd. They also have artifacts from Col. Frank Wolford, Confederate General Ben Hardin Helm, James Speed, Joshua Speed, and many other Kentucky related artifacts from the Civil War. They also mentioned General Stephen Gano Burbridge! It was nice to see how the exhibit tied together information from my two books on Burbridge and Lincoln and the Speeds.
As for the lecture, I had a good turn out and many of the folks afterwards asked quite alot of good questions. I would like to personally thank Megan Robertson and hope to work with the Speed Museum in the near future again.
Thank you for the Follow up on the J. B. Speed Art Museum lecture. Sounds very interesting. I’ve been researching the watches owned by President Lincoln and this is the first time I seen information the watch at Speed Art Museum was Tiffany’s. Just wish there was more information.
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