Later we visit downtown rapid city for a look at their collection of lifesize statues of our nations past president s. We begin our special feature with the story of Calvin Coolidge in the black hills. We are here in south dakotas black hills in Custer State Park and we are at the State Game Lodge which is a 1920s era building that was constructed can several years before Calvin Coolidge made his summer white house here in 1927 and he and the first lady stayed here for three months from june through september 1927 while they were on vacation. Calvin coolidge took office in 1923 when he was Vice President and Warren Harding died so he served as the last little bit of Warren Hardings term and was elected to his own term in 1924 and so he came to south dakota in 1927 when a lot of people were speculative would he or would he not run for another term in 1928 and it was widely expected that he would but he came here in 1927 because he was looking for a place to escape the oppressive summer
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Thank you for your patience. Were delighted to be gathered here today. I dont want to slow is down, but i do want to make sure that all of you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at Brooklyn Historical society for the first time . Wow. Fantastic. Welcome. Welcome to all of our oldtimers as well. A few of our Board Members are in the audience, so were delighted be that as well. Those who have never been here before i want to give you a sense of this institution which has been around for a very long time, 154 years, and we are Historical Society that prides ourselves on being very, very accessible to people. We have an extraordinary Research Library that is open to one and all. We encourage you to come and explore it. We have exhibitions which you may have got an glimpse of right behind the wall, history of abolition in brooklyn, called in pursuit of freedom. Theres an exhibition i want to make sure that you pick up this brochure on
Director of the roosevelt house in albany this evening. We are very excited to have kevin here to talk about his biography of food for and also to have amity chalets to interview him. You can imagine that this is not a house in which Herbert Hoover is historical or in the presentday talked about often were usually very kindly so one thing i want to say about the introduction is the indictment and advocacy shape and overwhelm the story of the man Herbert Hoover and they think that there has been more indictment in these holes than anywhere else because they lived here in this house during the 1932 campaign so we will hear a different story in the campaign and you might have heard interpreted. We met in the library on the second floor which is where president roosevelt met with members of the 32 election so i have a feeling they were talking about what a bad job Herbert Hoover had been doing. As the review says about the biography, they called it an intensely researched resurrection of a
You all so much for your patience. We are delighted to be gathered here today. I dont want to slow us down, but i do want to make sure you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at the Historical Society for the first time . Welcome to the institution has been around for a long time, 154 heres comin, and we are a histl society that prides herself on being very accessible to people. We have an extraordinary Research Library that is open to one and all. Periods behind the wall of history. It is an exhibition about the prospect parprospect park and iy downstairs, so theres a lot going on and you should come back and explore and perhaps most importantly for those of you that are interested in Public Programs such as this one i want to make sure that you pick up this brochure on your way back. It is chalk full of incredibly interesting programs and a whole series about womens suffrage coming up soon. Take a look. Dont miss any of the great