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Question: How and why does the Henry Ford Museum have Lincoln’s assassination chair?

I live right by the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn MI and I have always wondered how we received Abraham Lincoln’s assassination chair (the chair he was sitting in when she was killed). Does anyone know how the museum inherited this chair. Also, is this the 100% actual chair that he was killed in? Thanks in advance!

Answer: i thought that pres lincoln was assassinated at the ford theater. maybe they turned it into a museum. he was sitting on the top balcony.

Associate Superintendent Sass leaving Dearborn next year

DEARBORN — Dearborn Public Schools Associate Superintendent Norma Jean Sass has accepted the state’s early retirement incentive, but won’t actually leave the district for another year.

Model T Ford – How to drive a Model T – Henry Ford Estate – Fair Lane U of Michigan Dearborn

Special public meeting to spotlight stem cell-based therapies for ALS

Local scientists, health advocates and leaders from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will gather in San Diego June 23 for a special public meeting to spotlight a new University of California, San Diego grant to pursue novel, fast-tracked stem cell-based therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Henry Ford Hospital Celebrates 25 Years of Heart Transplants

Question: places to visit and things to do in Michigan during the long weekend?

been here for 9 years and covered pretty much everything, any sugggestions beyond the following the list of stuff that we have already done:
henry ford museum, holland, tahquamenon falls, sue sault marie, mackinac island, putin bay para sailing, ann arbor summer festival, detroit river front.

outdoor activity suggestions are also good.

Answer: I love spending the 4th in Saugatuck. Quaint shops in a village which is non-commercial with many art galleries as well. Douglas is just 5 min away and it has even more galleries plus, if you like to go antiquing, they have one heck of a large antique store. Saugatuck holds an art fair on the 4th; don’t know about Sunday though.

Grand Rapids (45 min from Saugatuck) has the Gerald Ford museum plus the Fred Meijer Gardens which is so much more than gardens with many, many sculptures. It has a great inexpensive restaurant with many glass sculptures on the ceiling by Chilhuly. There is also an enormous Chilhuly sculpture in the large hall. I was amazed to read that the Gardens are on the list of the top 10 sites which people must see before they die. Grand Rapids also has a very nice zoo and our downtown, which is beautiful, is very lively at night. We also have the VanAndel Arena – you can find out who is performing and get tickets in advance.

PS: If you haven’t been to Traverse City please go. I’m going with a friend in October for a festival plus we’ll be enjoying the 3 hr drive there to see the fall foliage. The drive alone is worth it; it’s easy to feel as though you’re driving in a never-ending forest – it’s incredibly beautiful.

University of Michigan-Dearborn to transfer ownership of the Henry Ford Estate to the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House

DEARBORN — The University of Michigan-Dearborn and the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., have reached an agreement to unite the Henry Ford Estate and Ford House in what will become a national model of sustainability and 21st century interpretation of our nation’s heritage.

Igor Sikorsky and Henry Ford in Michigan

Question: Can entire membership to Henry Ford/Greenfield Village in Mi. be deducted from inc. on taxes and if so where?

Answer: The Henry Ford is a valid 501(c)(3) organization, and their website states that memberships are indeed tax-deductible. You can include your membership in your charitable contributions as an itemized deduction on Schedule A.

** Update **
Ah; Judy caught me sleeping at the late tax-season wheel. As the updated first link below specifies, memberships are deductible “to the extent allowed by law.” Having re-read the question, the words “ENTIRE membership” now jump out at me in bright, neon lights.

My updated answer is: maybe. As Judy said, you can only deduct any amount that you give above the value of any benefits you receive. HOWEVER: If you are at an annual membership level of $75 or less, the full amount may be deductible. The second link below shows that IRS allows certain benefits to be ignored, and most of the member benefits listed on the first link appear to qualify.

If your annual membership is more than $75, the organization is required to give you a written statement regarding how much is deductible. I assume you haven’t received one since you are asking here, so I would highly recommend calling the Henry Ford Call Center at 313-982-6001; I guarantee that you are not the first person to ask about this, so they should be able to confirm how much of your specific membership level is deductible. Good luck!

Henry Ford Museum puts historic film clips online

Dearborn — Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is working to make its film collections more widely accessible.

Dearborn, Michigan: The Henry Ford & Greenfield Village: Railroad Turntable