One day last week I shared paintings by Edward Moran, a painter whose works I didn’t know until I came across his Life Saving Patrol on the Smithsonian Institution public domain image site. Here it is again. Life Saving Patrol by…
Near the end of her life, Grace Coolidge encouraged her son John to donate the Coolidge family homestead in Plymouth Notch to the State of Vermont. He complied and worked throughout his life to expand the historic site. Calvin and…
Grace Coolidge said that her marriage to Calvin Coolidge united two people of “vastly different temperaments and tastes.” These two vastly different people loved each other deeply. Like every other successful couple, they learned to make it work. The public…
Early in their marriage, Calvin and Grace Coolidge welcomed their first son, John, on September 7, 1906. A second son, Calvin Jr., was born on April 13, 1908. Calvin Jr. was a happy boy with a fun sense of humor.…
Like all new presidents and first ladies, the Coolidges experienced many firsts in the early months of his presidency. On September 5, 1923, the president made his first address as president when he spoke to members of the National Association…
In June 1923, two years after Calvin Coolidge became vice president of the United States, President Warren G. Harding began what he called a Voyage of Understanding across the country. He traveled all the way to Alaska and Canada, and…
