Events: Discussions, Presentations, Trips & Tours

(see News Archives for information, photos and videos of past events)

Patterson Homestead Series

Co hosted at the Patterson Homestead, 1815 Brown Street, Dayton, OH. Sundays at 2:00p.m. FREE!

January 24: Lincoln, His Peers and a Proclamation
February 21: Lincoln's Cooper Union speech
March 21: Mary Todd Lincoln (view a video on the courtship of Mary Todd Lincoln)
April 25: Lincoln, the Inventor. Karl Ayers, presenter
May 23: Lincoln's nomination on May 18, 1860
June 13: Robert Todd Lincoln speech by Darin Jolliffe Haas
July 18: Civil Religion presented by Karen Campbell
August 15: 4:30pm - 6:30pm Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social
Family Fun on the Great Lawn featuring games of the 1860's including: tug of war, jack straws, graces, hoops, assorted relay races and more! Prizes and suprises! Stories under the trees. Learn about Mary Lincoln's garden. Limited tours of the Homestead. Bring your own lawn chairs.
FREE and open to the public.
Sept 19:Dayton's Links to Lincoln
October 24: Campaigning 1860's Style
Nov. 7: Lincoln elected!
Dec 12:Food For Celebrations

The Lincoln Society of Dayton will be presenting "On the Campaign Trail with Lincoln" to celebrate the nomination, campaign and election of Lincoln 150 years ago. The evening program will be facilitated by Leon Bey and other Society members will join him to present and discuss important events leading up the the November election of our 16th president. Appropriate for students of all ages. Programs will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, June 21 Tuesday, June 22 Wednesday, July 14 Thursday, July 22 Wednesday, August 4 Thursday, August 5 Tuesday, August 17 Tuesday, August 31

Westwood Library Wilmington-Stroop Library Wright Library, Oakwood Miamisburg Library Northmont Library New Lebanon Library Kettering-Moraine Library Beavercreek library

Contact Maribeth Graham at 434-7414 or Leon Bey 214-4749 for more information

Trips and Tours

See a video of the trip to Wilmington, Ohio. Lincoln historian and Lincoln collector, Gary Kersey, takes the Lincoln Society of Dayton Ohio on a detailed tour of his Lincoln collection.
Many of his prized Lincoln items are attributed to the late famed Lincoln collector and artist Lloyd Ostendorf who resided in Oakwood a suburb of Dayton Ohio. In 1959, Lloyd wrote an illustrated booklet of "A Centennial Account of Abraham Lincoln's Visit to Dayton Ohio in 1859".

Tentive Trips:

• Louisville, KY (to see the Hamilton statue, the Library and Farmington)
• Springfield, IL and New Salem (overnight trip to several attractions, including Lincoln's childhood home)