2014 Lincoln Heritage Museum Magazine Lincoln Daily News.com April 26, 2014 37
The upstairs area of the museum
is a maze of small rooms, with
each one depicting a memory
from the life of Lincoln. In the
background, visitors can hear the
metallic sound of a clock ticking.
This emphasizes the passing of
time. While the moments between
the gunshot and Lincoln's final
breath were only a few hours,
the memories that might have
come to the surface in those final
moments of breath were vast.
