"If it was possible to travel back in time to a specific place, I would choose New Salem in the 1830's so I could experience frontier life."-from Meagan McGinnnis' New Salem Essay
On September 29, 1998,
the eighth graders from team "B", went to New Salem, Illionois, the town
that Abe Lincoln lived in. They went after reading the historical-fiction
novel,
A Frontier Wife,
about New Salem.
Quotes from Essays about New Salem by eighth graders