When President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary — in 1863, while in the White House — received a live turkey for the family to feast on at Christmas, their precocious eight-year-old son Tad ...

Lincoln Log Cabin will offer carriage rides, hot wassail and cookies, children's make-and-take crafts, and demonstrations of 1840s gingerbread baking from 1-4 p.m. Sunday.

Question: What was so special about Abraham Lincoln’s Christmas tree back when he lived in Central Illinois? Answer: Nothing.He didn’t ever have one here. In fact, it was in the year Abe left ...