Heart of Lincoln Land

I’m finally a member of the world known as the “blogosphere”.

My name is Chris, sometimes also known as “Abe”, because I love Abraham Lincoln, and because I kinda look like him a little bit. I hail from Springfield, Illinois, Mr. Lincoln’s home town. In fact, I live close enough to some of the places that were near and dear to him that I walk many of the same streets that he did every day. I truly live in the “Heart of Lincoln Land”, thus the name of my blog.

There’s still a lot to learn about our 16th President. And of course, Springfield, Illinois, besides being Mr. Lincoln’s home town, and having more connection to him than any other place, is a lively growing capital city with much to blog about. As far as Springfield goes, this blog will focus more on the historic downtown area more than anywhere else, since that’s the lifestyle that I live and love.

Besides loving Lincoln, and living in Springfield, I’m also an artist. And a musician. And a video game designer. I’ve always been creative. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t. And Abraham Lincoln is a very inspiring figure, somebody who inspires pretty much all of the creative work that I do. Springfield is the perfect place to get inspired by Lincoln, so I have a lot of Lincoln related projects, and I’ve always thought that a blog would be a good way to give people updates on these projects. So you’ll find updates here on my projects like Abraham Lincoln Land (my video game), the music that I write, the Lincoln T-shirts that I design, and other creative projects related to Lincoln.

Besides Lincoln, and Springfield, and my projects, I also have other interests. I’m a big fan of 80s music and old 2D “classic” style video games from the 80s and early 90s. I still play those old games, I find them more fun than today’s, and I play games made today that are styled like those old games. I’m also into technology (goes along with knowing how to make a video game), and urban planning and yes, even politics (but I’ll try not to post anything too sensitive, since I don’t want to offend anybody). All of my interests tie into Lincoln somehow, though, so they all get embedded in my art, some way or another. So that means that sometimes I’ll post about these other interests I have.

Anyways, I think I’ve rambled on long enough in this first post to my blog, and I hope you find the things I have to say interesting.

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