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Article: Early Abe: Lincoln's first eight years were spent in Kentucky.(The Orange County Register)
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- February 10, 2003
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Byline: Gary A. Warner
HODGENVILLE, Ky. _ Closing time, but Jodi Dutton is pleading for just one quick look at the cabin in the temple.
She's driven up from Union City, Tenn., and has many more miles to go this evening. Coming back in the morning isn't an option.
"Please, I just want to see where he was born," she tells the park ranger at the visitors center, who is already packing up to go home.
The ranger has heard it a million times. Practically every afternoon, when the shadows grow long across the manicured lawns of the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, some car, van or RV comes roaring past the unmanned front ...