October 6, 2023: Amelia Kibbie speaks at the dedication of a Lincoln Highway interpretive panel in Lisbon. The state map is the “Historic Auto Trails” map the Iowa DOT made in the 1980s.
Last Friday at Lincoln Square Park in downtown Lisbon, a short ceremony was held for the Lincoln Highway. One of the interpretive panels in Linn County for the history highway has been replaced and relocated. This particular panel focuses on the variety of markers used for auto trails in the 1910s, and how the Lincoln name was selected.
Amelia Kibbie, poet laureate of Mount Vernon-Lisbon, said she hoped this would promote the location as “Lincoln Square” and not just “the gazebo.” She read a poem she composed for the event.
A group photo was taken afterward, with everyone bundled up. If only it had been held on Tuesday.