Air Date: 120905
Subject: The Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Website: None. The Museum is Permanently Closed
Guest: Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections
Summary: Carolyn Texley, Director of Collections at the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana talks about the challenges of preserving the Lincoln story.
Brett’s Summary: Carolyn Texley, Gerry’s former colleague at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, talked to Gerry about the Lincoln Museum and what she does there. Carolyn was in charge of designing The Vault, the area where artifacts which are not being displayed are stored. She related that it had been a struggle to get the architects to design the room in order to keep the artifacts protected. Ms. Texley also went over the history of the museum and how it had been started by the Lincoln Financial insurance company.
Civil War Talk Radio airs most Fridays at 12 PM Pacific on World Talk Radio Studio A. Host Gerry Prokopowicz, the History Chair at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, interviews a guest each week and discusses their interest in the Civil War. Most interviews center around a book or books if the guest is an author. Other guests over the years have included public historians such as park rangers and museum curators, wargamers, bloggers, and even a member of an American Civil War Round Table located in London, England.
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