Lincoln’s Life Chronicled on Stamps

Set of Four Stamps Commemorate 200th Birthday

WICHITA, Kan. – The Postal Service and Lincoln Elementary School will hold a ceremony celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, who rose from humble, frontier origins to become a prominent lawyer, politician and ultimately President of the United States.

A ceremony will take place at 10 a.m., on Thursday, Feb. 12 at Lincoln Elementary, 1210 S. Topeka (Lincoln & Topeka) in the school gymnasium. The ceremony will include Lincoln Elementary Principal Laura McLemore and Cindy Liptak, manager customer services at the River City Post Office.

Two students from the school will read the Gettysburg address during the program which concludes with an unveiling of four new commemorative stamps of Lincoln during different periods of his life. The Lincoln stamps went on sale nationwide Monday, Feb. 9. Students at the ceremony will receive a Lincoln stamp on an envelope containing a special pictorial postmark of the event.

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