AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — The national release of Steven Spielberg’s film on Abraham Lincoln couldn’t have come at a better time for a central New York museum.

Lincoln biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin is speaking Thursday night at Auburn High School as part of a fundraising event for the Seward House Historic Museum in Auburn.

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