June 25th
This day we spent in talks, lots of eating and seeing Dixon sights.at the Loveland Community Center in Dixon.
We first heard about the history of Dixon and surrounding area back to town founder John Dixon and the Blackhawk War to the present.
Then, we heard about the Lincoln Highway around Chicago.
We had a huge sandwich spread for lunch. Denny and I then had some time to go to the site of Fort Dixon and look at the reconstructed fort and the statue of a young Lincoln in the Blackhawk War.
Back at Loveland Center, we had talks on educating the young about the Lincoln Highway and what we must do about preservation including the Top Four Most Endangered Sites.
Afterwards, Denny and I toured the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home and took a look at the impressive veterans Memorial before heading back for the awards banquet. More really fine eating.
This is the first multi-day conference I've ever been on and hopefully not the last. I really enjoyed it.
A Conferencing I Go. --RoadDog
NO Pun Intended: A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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