Happy Thanksgiving

"On this day, in home and church, in family and in public gatherings, the whole nation has for generations paid the tribute due from grateful hearts for blessings bestowed."

From Calvin Coolidge's 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation

Happy Thanksgiving

Governor Calvin Coolidge along with wife Grace and sons Calvin and John raise the US and Massachusetts flags on the lawn of their Massasoit Street, Northampton, Mass. home on Thanksgiving Day, 1919.

Coolidge Museum video

The Coolidge Museum is featured in the Springfield Republican newspaper's Favorite Places! There was a story on the front page of the October 27 local section and there is a 3 1/2 minute video on the newspaper's website, Mass Live.
The video features an introduction to the museum and highlights from its collection.
See http://videos.masslive.com/republican/2008/10/calvin_coolidge_presidential_l.html

Vote!

Tuesday September 16 is primary day in Massachusetts.
As you get out and vote, remember these words of Calvin Coolidge:

"The Right to vote is the very essence of self-government. It is a privilege we are too prone to assume is self-existent, and therefore unimportant. It is the foundation of our liberties"

From "Calvin Coolidge Says" a syndicated newspaper column August 15, 1930

George Bean auction listing Coolidge estate sale 1936

Summer 1926

The Summer White House in 1926 was located at White Pine Camp in New York's Adirondack Mountains.

Here Calvin, Grace and dogs enjoy a walk.

Today White Pine is still a lakeside retreat and the President's cabins are available for rent:

http://www.whitepinecamp.com/

Happy Birthday Calvin!

Happy 4th of July and Happy Birthday to Calvin Coolidge!

Fishing was a favorite Birthday activity of Calvin Coolidge!

While vacationing in the Black Hills, South Dakota area in 1927, Coolidge spent his 55th Birthday fishing (see photo at right).

In his Autobiography, when describing how his family celebrated holidays, Coolidge related that "the Fourth of July meant a great deal to me, because it was my birthday. The first one I can remember was when I was four years old. My father took me fishing in the meadow brook in the morning. I recall that I fell in the water, after which we had a heavy thundershower, so that we both came home very wet. Usually there was a picnic celebration on that day."

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. NY: Cosmopolitan Books, 1929. p.28