Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

'Looking at Lincoln'

Abraham Lincoln is almost universally revered in our modern age. But in his day, Honest Abe was skewered in newspaper cartoons just like any politician. Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock is showing these biting cartoons, which it says challenge viewers “to put aside 21st-century biases” and to “consider events through the eyes of those living during that era.” Visitors will also find a California printing of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln himself. The exhibit is open Saturday and Sunday, January 26 and 27. Pictured: “Columbia Demands Her Children.”