Springfield is going all out to celebrate July 4 this year. A new statue of Abraham Lincoln now stands in Union Square Park (left), and the Iles House wears patriotic bunting, as well as a newly completed fence and sidewalk.On Friday, July 7, Iles House will participate in Capitol Celebration week by hosting an 1850s Strawberry Party from 5:00 to 8:30 pm in the south yard.
Food provided will include hot dogs, chips, and drinks, plus strawberry short cake for $2.00. The Springfield Barbershop Quartet will entertain, along with a blue grass band and a traveling medicine man. We invite the public to come see and enjoy Iles House, the best place in Springfield to have an old-fashioned Fourth of July.
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Fritz Klein looks great in the Iles House.
Too bad nobody portrays a younger Lincoln, sans beard, who could really convey the image of the Lincoln who visited his Black Hawk War buddy, Elijah Iles, or his friend, Robert Irwin, there.
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