Happy Halloween to all!
There’s no better time to point you to the LOC’s “Wise Guide” for October, which explores how trick-or-treating got started:
The origins of present day “trick-or-treat” date back to the Celtic tradition of offering gifts of fruits and nuts to appease wandering spirits. If not placated, the villagers feared that the spirits would …
Archive for October, 2008 (8 posts)
Posted in: History, LC Web site
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Exhibits, especially major ones, take a lot of planning, often years’ worth.
There is fund-raising, exhibit design, curatorial work, object selection, conservation, writing the label texts, brochure design, fabrication, mounting, installation … and several other steps that I’m undoubtedly forgetting.
On Feb. 12, we’re opening the major exhibition “With Malice Toward None,” celebrating the 200th anniversary of …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Collections, Curators, Exhibitions, News
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It isn’t unusual for docents like Malcolm O’Hagan to find that they have inspired visitors after a tour of the Thomas Jefferson Building. (I have written about such inspiration before.) It is, after all, one of the great buildings at the heart of one of the great institutions of the world.
But what wasn’t …
Posted in: Poetry, Thomas Jefferson Building
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If you haven’t yet seen the exhibition that David McCullough calls the one “every American ought to see,” you might want to make a trip to the Library within the next few days.
The original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence in Thomas Jefferson’s hand, with edits by John Adams and Ben Franklin, will be …
Posted in: Exhibitions, New Visitors Experience
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All eyes in the United States over the next couple of weeks will be on the current presidential campaign.
Here at the Library of Congress, we’re taking a bit of a look back — and a musical one, at that.
A few days ago, we opened an exhibition called “Voices, Votes, Victory: Presidential Campaign Songs,” which runs …
Posted in: Exhibitions, Music, News
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