2009 Embassy Events
Abraham and Mrs. Lincoln re-enactors celebrate 4th of July in The Bahamas
July 6, 2009
Abraham and Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln re-enactors participated in several 4th of July events in Freeport and Nassau. On Tuesday, June 30, they were hosted by the Bahamas Historical Society in a performance at the U.S. Embassy.
On Wednesday, July 1, they travelled to Freeport, Grand Bahama and performed at the YMCA Summer Camp and the Embassy’s official 4th of July celebration at the Our Lucaya Resort. On Thursday, July 2, the Abraham Lincoln re-enactor read the Gettysburg Address during the Embassy’s official 4th of July celebration at Liberty Overlook.
In 2003 Mr. Larry Elliott entered a Lincoln look-a-like contest in Hodgenville, Kentucky, and began reading about Abraham Lincoln. After an extensive study of his life, Mr. Elliott decided to purchase a complete period-correct Abraham Lincoln costume and began portraying him. In 2005, Mr. Elliott says that when he learned that his great, great, great grandmother (Mary LaRue Enlow) was the midwife who helped deliver Abraham Lincoln, he knew this vocation was for him.
Larry Elliott now portrays Mr. Lincoln in the first person, from his humble roots in Kentucky, to growing up in Indiana, to becoming a self taught lawyer in Illinois, and the sixteenth President of the United States who preserved the Union and freed the slaves and met an untimely death at Ford’s Theatre.
After much reading about Mary Todd Lincoln and the integral role she played in history, Mr. Elliott’s wife, Mary, began portraying the First Lady with him.