FUN WITH MAPS – ISSUE 2023-100 DAILY FEATURE:

By Steve Kovacs (Introduction by Chuck Gibson)

LOVELAND, OH (May 30, 2023) – Today we welcome back Steve Kovacs from vacation refreshed and ready with a new edition of Fun with Maps where we’re reminded of the message behind the words of the Gettysburg address.

Lincoln Memorial

It is all together fitting and proper that a swamp by the Potomac River in Washington D.C. had to be drained to erect the neoclassical Monument to the 16th US President.  Hard work.

While it is a great gesture for a simple man from Hodgenville, Kentucky receiving this Monument, it is unclear if he would have approved it.

Abraham Lincoln was one with his people, and if you carefully read his Gettysburg address which is displayed in his Memorial, you will read him seeking unity, love for each other, and hope. This is at the most turbulent and divisive times of the Nation.  A lesson to be learned by some of the lesser people of today.

One’s roots are important, so the map that is shown here is of Kentucky, a frontier area when Bradford created it in 1838.

 Steve Kovacs and his wife Theresa reside in Loveland, Ohio where they raised their two children. He is a passionate collector of antique maps.

Visit his antique map boutique world-on-paper online. Watch for his daily feature Steve Kovacs: Fun with Maps here on Loveland Beacon.