The Lincoln Hunters is a 1958 novel by Wilson Tucker.  The novel, set in the year 2578, details the story of a historian from the oppressive society of that year, who travels back in time to record Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech of May 19, 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois.  

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles  https://www.amortowles.com/the-lincoln-highway-about-the-book/  

The Lincoln Highway--Main Street across America, tenth anniversary edition 2009  Author Drake Hokanson revisits the Lincoln Highway and finds it changed—much for the better—since the original publication of this book.  Most notably, he calls attention to the reinvigorated Lincoln Highway Association and its efforts to preserve what is left of the old road.  Hokanson finds more and more tourists traveling the road—not only Americans but foreigners as well—by car, bus, and motorcycle on journeys not to any particular destination, but simply to see America. 

The Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental road for automobiles in the United States, dedicated in 1913.  It winds its way over 3,000 miles between New York City and San Francisco.  https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/

More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen.  Normally, it would be much too faint to view, even with the world’s largest telescopes.  But through a quirk of nature that tremendously amplifies the star’s feeble glow, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to pinpoint this faraway star and set a new distance record.  They also used Icarus to test one theory of dark matter, and to probe the make-up of a foreground galaxy cluster.  The star, harbored in a very distant spiral galaxy, is so far away that its light has taken 9 billion years to reach Earth.  It appears to us as it did when the universe was about 30 percent of its current age.  https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/hubble-uncovers-the-farthest-star-ever-seen  Thank you, Muse reader!   

Sept. 7, 2023  Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among 2023’s winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of the poetry world’s most lucrative prizes.  Hahn, a faculty member of Queens College in New York City whose books include “The Unbearable Heart” and “Earshot,” won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement.  Lilly was an heir to pharmaceutical tycoon Eli Lilly who in 2002 heir to pharmaceutical tycoon Eli Lilly who in 2002 bequeathed $100 million to Poetry magazine.  The Poetry Foundation was established the following year.  https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/kimiko-hahn-wins-100000-award-poetry-foundation-lifetime-102996491   

CORRECTION  The correct website for Lloyd Wright-commissioned house (with pictures) is https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/inside-a-landmark-l-a-house-by-frank-lloyd-wrights-son-4598c30c  Thank you, Muse reader!

A Van Gogh painting stolen from a Dutch museum in March 2020 is back in safe hands after a three-and-a-half-year quest to recover it.  Dutch art detective Arthur Brand said he had been handed the 139-year-old painting in a pillow and an Ikea bag by a man who came to his front door.  "I did this in complete co-ordination with Dutch police and we knew this guy wasn't involved in the theft," he said.  In 2021, a career criminal was jailed for eight years over the incident.  But by then the painting, worth several million euros, had already changed hands.  The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was initially stolen from the Dutch town of Laren, to the south-east of Amsterdam.  The thief smashed through two glass doors at the Singer museum with a sledgehammer, at the start of the coronavirus lockdown.  It had been on loan from a museum in the north-eastern city of Groningen which has hailed the work's recovery as "wonderful news".  The French-born thief, 59-year-old Nils M, who lived a short distance away from Laren, was convicted of stealing the work as well as a Frans Hals painting a few months later from a museum in Leerdam, near Utrecht.  His DNA was found at both crime scenes.  According to communications intercepted by police, the Van Gogh painting from 1884, also known as Spring Garden, had been acquired by a crime group intending to use it in exchange for shorter jail terms.  Paul Kirby  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66785150  

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2718  September 13, 2023