They were Vermont Yankees, through and through. Pillars of the Plymouth Notch community, friends to all and enemies to none. That is how history remembers this couple, from whose union came the thirtieth president of the United States. John and Victoria Coolidge welcomed a little auburn baby into their modest home in the back of the General Store on Independence Day, 1872. One can only imagine the hopes and dreams Victoria held in her heart and mind for that dear son. Did she dare to dream that her firstborn son would one day sit in the Oval Office?

By Rushad Thomas I had the pleasure October 3 – 5 of exploring a southwestern treasure directly related to President Calvin Coolidge, the dam on the Gila River in Arizona that is eponymously named for him. Dedicated by Coolidge on March 4, 1930, the Coolidge Dam is a massive edifice, composed of three large domes, approximately 250 feet in height, anchored by two buttresses. The Dam impounds the Gila River for 23 miles when full.

By Rushad Thomas. It was a triumphant electoral victory: 382 electoral votes, 35 states (out of 48 total at the time), and 54 percent of the vote in a three-way race that very well could have split the Republican vote. Campaigning on a platform of limited government, tax cuts, debt reduction, and economic freedom, Calvin Coolidge won the hearts of the American people. This outcome was not preordained. Ascending to the presidency only as the result of the death of Warren Harding, the GOP very well could have cast him aside in the ’24 election. Fortunately, the party bosses knew a winner when they saw one, and a winner Coolidge was!