We salute you, President Lincoln.

So between the intense bar exam studying (can you tell by my last post that it's a mental struggle to keep at it?), I've been reading the local news at Carson Now to try to stay informed about my new home city. When we got stuck in crazy traffic on the main road yesterday, I learned it was from a somewhat suspicious (or just freak) accident.

But something this morning caught my eye -- the Carson City Rendezvous, happening this weekend!

This is reportedly the area's largest special event, and boy does it promise to be a good one. There will be a reenactment of the inauguration of President Lincoln (whose second inaugural address is moving and appears on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial in D.C.), gunfighter shows, and western performers. And don't forget the mountain men encampment!

If that doesn't tickle your fancy, here is how the Carson Now describes it: The event is where the authentic and re-enactment collide, whether it’s the lingering smell of gunpowder after musket battle demonstrations, the boom of Civil War-era cannons or the taste of beans and bacon cooked in cast-iron dutch ovens over an open fire.

Fantastic. I might have to free myself from these bar exam study books and go check out the Wild West.

In parting, I leave you with the powerful closing words of our sixteenth president:

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan -- to do all which may achieve and cherish, a just and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865, Second Inaugural Address