Gettysburg Remembrance Day Commemorated

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ORRVILLE -- On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as part of the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. That same speech was given by Gerald Payn as Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 2011, to more than 200 attendees at the University of Akron Wayne College's Civil War commemoration event.

In addition to Payn's portrayal of Lincoln, living history actors portrayed a variety of other historical figures, including Mary Todd Lincoln and Harriet Tubman, who were portrayed respectively by Marilyn Payn and Lydia Thompson. There also were presentations about the life of a soldier during the Civil War, battlefield surgery techniques, Civil War fashions and music by Steve Ball, who performed songs from the period on his 1860's Martin guitar.

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Gettysburg Remembrance Day Commemorated

Among those in attendance was 9-year-old Liam Bureau from Hope, Alaska, who was in town with his parents v...

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