hildene symposium schedule

FRIDAY, APRIL 25

Equinox Hotel

4:00 PM Registration Begins

5:30 PM Cash Bar, Colonnade Room

6:00 PM Dinner, Colonnade Room

      Welcome: Harold Holzer, Chairman

      Jason Emerson, Robert T. Lincoln, and his Parents

SATURDAY, APRIL 26

Breakfast on your own

Lincoln Hall, Hildene

9:00 AM Welcome and Greetings by Brian Keefe

9:30 AM Jonathan W. White, Lincoln’s Boyhood Family: Preparation for Greatness 

10:30 AM Catherine Clinton, The Unsinkable Mary Lincoln

11:30 AM Michelle Krowl, Robert and the Robert Lincoln Papers

12:30 PM Lunch

1:00 PM Panel: Jason Emerson, Christian McWhirter, Samuel Wheeler, and Erin Carlson Mast, moderator: The Lincoln Children: From Springfield to Hildene

2:00 PM Brian Keefe, The Hildene Story

      Followed by concurrent tours of Hildene: the home, the gardens, and Pullman Car

4:30 PM Break

6:00 PM Cash Bar, Lincoln Hall

6:30 PM Dinner

      Harold Holzer, The Lincoln Family Album: Remembering the Lincolns Through the Photos they Treasured

SUNDAY, APRIL 27

Equinox Hotel, Rockwell Ballroom

9:00 AM Panel: The Lincoln Family Reconsidered, with all speakers, and Hon. Frank J. Williams, Moderator