The eld of logic programming and nonmonotic reasoning was born in 1991, when a number of researchers working in \the theoretical ends" of logic programming and arti cial intelligence gathered in Washington D.C. for the rst LPNMR workshop, which was organized by Anil Nerode, Wiktor Marek, and V.S. Subrahmanian. I was privileged to attend this meeting; to closely observe the development of the eld over the past 28 years; and to witness many remarkable achievements, which in 1991 I would not have believed to be possible. In this talk I plan to discuss some of these achievements and share a number of personal observations on the eld's history, current state, and possible future directions. Among other things, I will comment on the development of powerful knowledge representation languages, the design and implementation of non-monotonic reasoning systems, and use of these languages and systems in formalizing various types of knowledge and reasoning tasks. The talk is not meant to be a survey of the eld, rather it is my personal perspective limited to a small, but important, collection of topics I am most familiar with.