Tinsmith Don Jarrett is Lincoln Log Cabin's Visiting Artisan for August 18 - 19

LERNA - Tinsmith Don Jarrett will demonstrate his craft on Saturday and Sunday, August 18 and 19 at Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site near Charleston. This Visiting Artisan event is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

Tin in the 19th century kitchen was as ubiquitous as plastic ware is today. Jarrett will make new tin items and repair tin vessels just as his counterparts of the past would have done.

Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (www.Illinois-History.gov), is the last home of Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's father and stepmother. It is operated as a living history farm where visitors can experience the sights, sounds, smells and speech of 1845. For more information visit www.lincolnlogcabin.org. Lincoln Log Cabin is located about eight miles south of Charleston, Illinois.