FOR OUR FAITH-BASED READERS & HISTORY BUFFS TOO: #48, HISTORIC CHURCH FORCED TO PUT UP NO TRESPASSING SIGN, HONORING LINCOLN AND MORE

For our faith-based readers and history buffs too---NUMBER 48-- one of our most widely traveled and very popular series here at Everything Croton:

#1 - HISTORIC FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH FORCED TO POST NO TRESPASSING SIGN; MEMBERS NOW ENTER THROUGH SIDE ENTRANCE---due to homeless encampment, crime, increasing street violence, Upper West Side; more from the NY POST HERE.

#2 -  FEB. 12TH; REMEMBERING LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY; just a small sample from our collection of links from the blog about our greatest President:

--2020 LINCOLN REMEMBRANCE DAY; A FLICKR PHOTO ALBUM, PEEKSKILL  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/02/photo-album-lincoln-remembrance-day.html

--LINCOLN SOCIETY/MUSEUM IN PEEKSKILL; RESTORATION OF TRAIN STATION WHERE LINCOLN STOPPED, ETC. http://www.lincolnsociety.com/

--INVOKING LINCOLN, CHRISTMAS 1941, FROM CROTON'S THE LATE MARION COSTELLO; MORE HERE

--FROM CROTON'S THE LATE Robert Scott: “The Two Journeys of Abraham Lincoln” at http://notorc.blogspot.com/2009/02/two-journeys-of-abraham-lincoln.html

AND FINALLY:TO THE READER WHO ASKED ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO'S ATTEMPTS TO "RE-NAME" IN TRUE ORWELLIAN FASHION, SEVERAL SCHOOLS---you will be pleased to know:

FROM 2021--SCHOOL SYSTEM THERE CANCELS DECISION TO RENAME SCHOOLS HONORING GEORGE WASHINGTON, LINCOLN, ETC.--San Francisco has made a stunning about-face, walking back a controversial decision to scrub 44 “racist” names from its schools — including George Washington and Abraham Lincoln — after the move drew nationwide ire and was criticized for being based on flawed information without insight from historians. READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/02/22/san-francisco-cancels-choice-to-rename-racist-schools/

 

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#47, FOR OUR FAITH-BASED READERS AND HISTORY BUFFS TOO, MARK WAHLBERG AND MEL GIBSON MOVIE "FATHER STU", WORLD MARRIAGE DAY, HARPER LEE'S 1960 NOVEL TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD CANCELLED BY SCHOOL DISTRICT, FINLAND CHRISTRIANS ON TRIAL FOR AFFIRMING MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT, AND STATUE FUNDRAISER FOR LINCOLN DEPOT MUSEUM CONTINUES