C. Boyden Gray

July 16, 2014

Ambassador C. Boyden Gray was the founding partner of Boyden Gray & Associates, a law and strategy firm in Washington, D.C., focused on constitutional and regulatory issues. Mr. Gray worked […]

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Recap of July 8th and 10th Debate Days

July 15, 2014

On Tuesday, July 8 and Thursday, July 10 the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation welcomed some of the brightest high school students in the country to Plymouth Notch to debate the topic of property rights and to learn about President Coolidge and his era.

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Recap of July 4th at the Notch

July 15, 2014

Recently the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation hosted our July Fourth at the Notch Celebration, including a remembrance ceremony at the Plymouth Notch Cemetery and a special reading of the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge to celebrate our thirtieth president’s birthday and the birth of our nation.

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Reeve Lindbergh to Speak at Coolidge Foundation on August 2nd

July 15, 2014

On August 2 at 1:30pm, Charles Lindbergh’s daughter, Reeve Lindbergh, will visit the Union Christian Church at the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site to speak about Family Meetings and Historical Events. She’ll describe her experiences with her own family and their relationship with the Coolidge family.

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The Ku Klux Klan in Calvin Coolidge’s America

July 14, 2014

President Calvin Coolidge was fortunate to preside over what was probably the most exciting, vital, and creative decade of the Twentieth Century — the Nineteen-Twenties. It was a decade of youth, symbolized by Lindbergh and the Flapper. It was a decade when modern America came alive. Cars filled the roads; radios, refrigerators, and electric washing machines appeared in the home; movies sparkled with “stars,” whose voices would soon be heard on the screen; and thanks to a general prosperity, there was money to spend not just on the necessities of life but on its pleasures as well. It could be rightly said that the American people had never had it so good.

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