2026 Mini-Symposium at Hildene

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The Lincoln Forum Symposium at Hildene will take place May 1-3, 2026. To register, you must be a member of either The Lincoln Forum or Hildene.

If you select mail-in payment, send a check for $325 per registration made out to “The Lincoln Forum” to:

The Lincoln Forum
c/o Diane C. F. Brennan
217 Nawakwa Road
Biglerville, PA  17307

To pay by credit card, please select the PayPal option.

Please note our cancellation policy: $50 non-refundable administration fee for cancellations up to March 31. No registration refunds after March 31.

The Lincoln Forum Symposium at Hildene will take place May 1-3, 2026. To register, you must be a member of either The Lincoln Forum or Hildene.

If you select mail-in payment, send a check for $325 per registration made out to “The Lincoln Forum” to:

The Lincoln Forum
c/o Diane C. F. Brennan
217 Nawakwa Road
Biglerville, PA  17307

To pay by credit card, please select the PayPal option.

Please note our cancellation policy: $50 non-refundable administration fee for cancellations up to March 31. No registration refunds after March 31.

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Space is Limited: First-come, first-served

Friday May 1-Sunday, May 3

Registration: $325

INCLUDES

Friday group dinner: The Equinox Hotel, Manchester, VT

Saturday: All-day program, Lincoln Hall at Robert Todd Lincoln’s Hildene: The Lincoln Family Home

Plus free tours of Robert Lincoln’s home and—for the first time—behind-the-scenes look at the Hildene archives.

Saturday Group dinner at Lincoln Hall with presidential descendants

Sunday continental breakfast and panel discussion at The Equinox

Speakers include: 

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on his extraordinary career and his years of focus on Abraham Lincoln

Lois Romano and Jason Emerson on Mary Lincoln

David Kent on Lincoln in New England

Craig L. Symonds on Black emigrants

A special panel of presidential descendants: meet and hear descendants of Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and Theodore Roosevelt

Full schedule coming soon!