Sunday's Column - Lincoln

Today is the Birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the greatest of all American presidents.  In the city of Redlands some 30 miles from here there is a shrine devoted to this icon of democracy.  It was donated to the city by a Englishman called Robert Watchorn, who went down the mines of Derbyshire when he was only 11.  Eventually with about $5 in his pocket he emigrated to America and became a very wealthy man.  He, like Lincoln, came from very humble beginnings and he became a student of the ex-president, who himself had never been further west than Council Bluffs in Iowa.  You can read the entire column as www.sbsun.com/trevorstravels