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Experience

  • Lonn presented and participated at the 2007, 2009, 2011 & 2013 International Farm Progress Shows in Decatur Illinois.

  • Lonn presented Mr. Lincoln along with Madam Currie, Galileo, Charles Darwin at the Illinois Science Teachers Conference in Peoria, IL Nov 13th and 14th 2008
  • Lonn was the living Lincoln at the grand opening of Portraying Lincoln: Man of Many Faces in Decatur, Illinois in June 2008.
  • At the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum Grand Opening April 16-19, 2005 in Springfield Lonn mingled with the crowds as Lincoln and presented A. Lincoln: A Touch of the Poet in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library's atrium on April 17.
  • Presented a speech on the use of the telegraph and the relationship between communications and transportation to the opening ceremony of the 10th Annual Conference of the Rural Telecommunications Congress October 14th, 2007
  • Was the "Lincoln" at the June 10-12, 2005 Missouri Historical Society event called "The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden" & appeared again at the Missouri Historical Society's birthday party for Mr. Lincoln in 2009
  • Lincoln in Chicago's Taste of Chicago: Illinois Bureau of Tourism July 2005. Lonn appeared in interactive posters in bus shelter locations in downtown Chicago for the IBOT, May through June 2007.
  • In Valdez, Alaska Lonn presented: A.Lincoln: A.Touch of the Poet at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference June 2009
  • Lonn is one of the subjects of Split Pillow's documentary entitled "Life as Lincoln" due to open Feb 22nd 2010.
  • Illinois Republican Lincoln Day Luncheon, 2006 Springfield, Illinois, gave the Gettysburg Address and the Pledge of Allegiance; 2007 presented Lincoln's "Farewell to Springfield "; shared stage with Gov. Mike Huckabeein 2009 Feb.12th in Springfield, IL
  • Portrayed Lincoln at the re-dedication of the Lincoln Courthouse at the Macon County Historical Society sponsored by the DAR Association and Lonn in 2011. Also as Lincoln represented the Macon County Historical Society at the 2007 Business Expo at the Decatur Area Civic Center.
  • 2009 Decatur Conference Center Regional Neighborhood Associations Conference
  • Presented a speech as Lincoln and his love of rivers and his experience as a flatboater on the Ohio River at the 2007 Awards Banquet of the Great Mississippi River Parkway Commission in Quincy, IL
  • Lonn presented Mr. Lincoln at the Welsh Heritage Centre in Wymore, Nebraska on May 30th, 2011.