ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS IS BEING SPONSORED ON PUBLIC TELEVISION IN ILLINOIS BY THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

In other amazing news, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, is sponsoring the broadcast of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois on the eleven PBS affiliates in Illinois!  Joseph Crane, the Public Relations Director at the museum called Kent Masterson Brown, WHEF’s President and CEO, to notify him of this fact, and to alert WHEF that the Presidential Library had produced a forty-second promotional piece that appears at the beginning of every broadcast.  WHEF is grateful to receive this recognition from the Presidential Library, especially because WHEF’s mission is so closely aligned with the mission of that museum and museums of American history everywhere.

Our mission is intended to inspire viewers to visit the sites where history was made in America.  WHEF hopes that you will consider visiting sites such as Lincoln’s New Salem at Petersburg, Illinois, the Lincoln Home, the Old State Capitol, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois.