March 4, 2025 — Printed in the March 4, 2025 Daily Hampshire Gazette Calvin Coolidge’s initial presidential inauguration will forever be unique in American history. He was vice president and vacationing at his father’s home in Vermont. Upon learning of the sudden death of President Harding, he was sworn in there on Aug. 3, 1923, in the wee hours…
Author: Julie Bartlett Nelson
Coolidge Centennial Giving Day
March 4, 2025 — Tuesday March 4 is Centennial Giving Day March 4, 1925 Supreme Court Justice and former President William Howard Taft administer the oath to President Calvin Coolidge. We have chosen this historic date of the 100th anniversary of President Coolidge’s inauguration to kick off a $400,000 fundraising campaign for a new Museum exhibit and program space. …
Coolidge Museum March 2025 Newsletter
March 4, 2025 — Check out the March 2025 Coolidge Museum e-newsletter for upcoming events and Coolidge history!To receive these via email sign up at https://forbeslibrary.org/emails-and-newsletters/ or email us at Coolidge@forbeslibrary.org Centennial Giving Day! Tuesday March 4 Join us for Centennial Giving Day on March 4 in honor of the 100th anniversary of President Coolidge’s 1925 inauguration. Supreme Court Justice and former…
New Coolidge Museum e-newsletter
November 6, 2024 — Check out the November 2024 Coolidge Museum e-newsletter for upcoming events and Coolidge history! To receive these via email sign up at https://forbeslibrary.org/emails-and-newsletters/ or email us at Coolidge@forbeslibrary.org
Coolidge Museum exhibit design RFP
October 8, 2024 — On behalf of The Trustees of Forbes Library, the Board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum invites exhibition design firms to submit proposals to work with the Head of the Coolidge Museum, Forbes Library Director and Coolidge Museum Exhibits Committee to re-envision and reimagine the Coolidge Museum space. Request for Proposal We encourage…
Then Again: How a President’s vacation briefly transformed Plymouth
September 28, 2022 — This Vt Digger article by Mark Bushnell, “Then Again: How a President’s Vacation Briefly Transformed Plymouth,” describes the Summer White House in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, summer 1924. Photographs in the article from the Forbes Library collections.
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