July 1, 2013 — Have you ever wondered how Coolidge, who didn’t drive, got to the State House to serve as a state rep, state senator, lieutenant governor and governor? There was no turnpike as we know it so one hundred years ago, he took the train. When in Boston, Coolidge and some of the other Western Mass legislators…
Category: Calvin Coolidge
Preparing for the Great War
June 3, 2013 — Calvin Coolidge’s terms in the Massachusetts Senate coincided with the beginning of World War I in Europe (1912 – 1915). The great debate about America’s role and participation in the conflict began. The Massachusetts legislature appointed a Committee to Study Preparedness in 1915. The Hampshire Gazette reported on a union service at the Methodist Church…
A State Senator and His Committees
May 9, 2013 — After serving as mayor of Northampton in 1910 and 1911, Coolidge was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate. He would serve four years before being elected Lieutenant Governor and Governor. In 1912, Coolidge was appointed to the Cities, Agriculture, and Legal Affairs Committees. He chaired the last two. In the summer, he also led a…
Memorial tribute to Calvin Coolidge
January 4, 2013 — Calvin Coolidge died at his home, “The Beeches” in Northampton on January 5, 1933. Upon Coolidge’s death, The Daily Hampshire Gazette published this tribute to Coolidge from Henry P. Field on January 7, 1933. Calvin Coolidge studied law in the Office of Hammond & Field 1895-1897. Henry P. Field, lawyer, Mayor of Northampton, Judge, Forbes…
The President Meets the 1925 Senators
October 18, 2012 — By visiting the Coolidge Museum between now and May 2013, you can see President Coolidge’s picture taken on the White House lawn with the 1925 Washington Senators – the baseball team, not the elected officials. The picture is on display to honor a baseball team that is having a great season, the Washington Nationals. They…
General Pershing and President Coolidge
October 4, 2012 — Two powerful men of the early twentieth century met and interacted. General of the Armies John Joseph ‘Black Jack’ Pershing, (1860-1948) and President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933). Pershing, the most illustrious military man of his times, led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. His career began at West Point and continued in a cavalry…
Christmas Day
December 25, 2011 — Christmas represents love and mercy. It was ushered in by the star of hope and remains forever consecrated by the sacrifice of the cross. Christmas holds its place in the hearts of men because they know that love is the greatest thing in the world. Christmas is celebrated in its true spirit only by those…
Thanksgiving
November 24, 2011 — The little band of Pilgrims who first established this institution on the shore by Plymouth Rock had no doubts. If their little colony of devoted souls, when exiled to a foreign wilderness by persecution, cut in half by disease, surrounded by hostility and threatened with famine, could give thanks, how much more should this great…
Veteran’s Day
November 11, 2011 — What the veterans gave cannot be measured in money. It was priceless. From “Calvin Coolidge Says”, January 28, 1931
Silent Cal
November 10, 2011 — A wise old owl lived in an oak.The more he saw the less he spoke.The less he spoke the more he heard;Why can’t we be like that old bird? Over the fireplace in Coolidge’s home at Northampton, Massachusetts
Past and Future
October 15, 2011 — We review the past not in order that we may return to it but that we find in what direction, straight and clear, it points to the future. Address as vice president, Burlington, Vermont, June 12, 1923
Columbus Day
October 10, 2011 — Measured by its effect on all following history, the voyage of Columbus, ending in the discovery of a new hemisphere, was an achievement of the first magnitude. Possibly others preceded him, but he was the first who made known the existence of America to European civilization. From “Calvin Coolidge Says”, October 11, 1930
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