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Garrison Library to Host Alexander Hamilton Exhibit
On June 6th, Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America, a traveling panel exhibition from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will come to The Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison (472 Route 403). It will be on display through June 30.
The exhibition, funded in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and based upon the exhibition of the same name held two years ago at the New- York Historical Society, examines Hamilton's central role during the Revolutionary War and Founding period (1774- 1804) in creating the economic, constitutional, social, journalistic, political and foreign policy templates for modern America.
"Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America" can be viewed Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10am to 5 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2pm to 9pm, and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm (10am to 5pm on Saturday, June 23). The exhibition is comprised of seven freestanding panels that run approximately seventy-five feet. For more information, contact Carol Donick, Library Director, at 424-3020 or Donick@Highlands.com.
"Alexander Hamilton was a close, lifelong friend of Nicholas Fish, whose portrait hangs in the library," said Carol Donick, the library's director. "They attended King's College together and served together during the Revolutionary War. Fish named his eldest son after Hamilton and Hamilton made Fish an executor of his will."
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. Increasingly national and international in scope, the Institute targets audiences ranging from students to scholars to the general public. It helps create history centered schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars and enrichment programs for educators, partners with school districts to implement Teaching American History grants, produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, and sponsors lectures by eminent historians. The Institute also funds awards including the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and George Washington Book Prizes and offers fellowships for scholars to work in history archives, including the Gilder Lehrman Collection.
The programs listed below are made possible, in part, by The New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program. In Putnam County the Decentralization Program is administered by the Putnam Arts Council.
The Library will also be offering a number of additional programs in conjunction with the exhibit as follows:
-"Ring in Liberty", a Family Concert by the Marvelous Musical Martins, Saturday, June 9 at 2pm
-Lecture on Alexander Hamilton by Thomas Fleming. Thomas Fleming has written numerous books about American History, including Washington's Secret War, and The Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America, Saturday, June 16 at 2pm
-Mandeville House Tours: Mandeville House, which was frequented by Hamilton and other members of Washington's staff during the Revolution, will be open for tours Saturday, June 16 and Sunday, June 17 from 12-5. Please register in advance in the library, as space is limited.
-"Alexander Hamilton in Story and Song", by Jonathan Kruk and Richard Bala, Saturday, June 23 at 2pm
-Hamilton in the Highlands by Robert Hutchinson
Saturday, June 23 at 4pm
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