The Lincoln Society in Peekskill's 2017 Dinner Dance at the Mansion at Colonial Terrace.  
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Photos below  by John and Nancy Testa

Photos below by Elizabeth McCorvey

2017 "Champion of History" Honoree, the Honorable John G. Testa and his wife Nancy.  Photo by Legislator Sheila Marcotte

Photo collage above by Deb Carlin Pohill.

LS President Barbara Kerasiotes. Photo by Georgia Horafas Ioannou

Guest Speaker Brian J. Snee presented a program based upon his book "Lincoln Before Lincoln". In his detailed study, Brian Snee provided a sweeping overview of the cinematic representations of the sixteenth president from the silent era up to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012)―a film which, he argued, marks a seismic shift in the way Hollywood presents the Great Emancipator on-screen. Snee focused on six of the most popular and influential movies and TV miniseries of the twentieth century to address the life of Abraham Lincoln―The Birth of a Nation (1915), Abraham Lincoln (1930), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Sandburg's Lincoln (1974–1976), and Gore Vidal's Lincoln (1988). Snee discussed how each work has contributed to public memory of the president, addressing issues of production, textual construction, and audience reception, as well as their contemporary historical contexts and underlying cultural theory. 

​Dr. Brian Snee was born and raised in Scranton PA. He earned a BA from the University of Scranton, and a MA and PhD from Penn State University. He is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the First-Year Program at Manhattanville College, where he created the Department of Communication and Media. 

Outgoing LS President Barbara Kerasiotes welcomes new President Michael Macedonia.