Let’s Get Away From It All,” a new album by Webster native Dan Gabel and his 1930s-style big band, is a parade of fun, sweet and hopeful jazz songs.

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the mail. Addressed to “A. Linkon Esq.” and dated “Ogust 6,” it was written in ...