Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum

10/05/2026

Today is World Teacher Day !
Grace Coolidge, a graduate of University of Vermont, was a teacher at the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech 1902-1905. She moved to Northampton, Massachusetts from her native Burlington, Vermont to train in lip reading (oral transliteration) and teach deaf students at Clarke School.

Save the date of November 5 at 6:30 PM for a panel program on Grace Coolidge and deaf education with retired Clarke faculty, an audiologist and a doctor in a local cochlear implant program. Program will be held in the Coolidge Museum and livestream and be recorded on You Tube.

Photograph from May, 1928 by Eric Stahlberg of First Lady Grace Coolidge visiting Caroline Yale, longtime principal of Clarke and mentor and friend to Grace.

09/21/2026

We were honored to have Lindsay Sabadosa, State Representative, 1st Hampshire District, City of Northampton Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra and the Coolidge family, volunteers, friends, donors and new fans with us last Saturday to celebrate 70 years!

Happy 70th Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum! We celebrated today with swing music, Grace Coolidge's icebox cookies, and special guest Jennifer Harville, Calvin Coolidge's great-granddaughter. On the lawn at , it was a lovely afternoon of history, music, and 70 years of 's own presidential museum and library.

09/13/2026

Today is Grandparents Day!
The Coolidge boys with their grandfathers

L-R: Andrew Goodhue (father of Grace Coolidge), John Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge, Jr., Col. John Coolidge (father of the President)
studio portrait taken while Calvin Coolidge was Governor of Massachusetts (1919-1920)

09/04/2026

CEO of In Pursuit USA, Dr. Colleen Shogan's new essay on Grace Coolidge.

Dr. Colleen Shogan writes about Grace Coolidge and the political power of authenticity in a decade defined by cynicism and scandal. Grace never sought public life, but her warmth and openness cut against the reserved image of her husband and the eroded trust left by the Harding administration.

She resumed public White House tours, supported the deaf community as a former teacher at the Clarke School, and let the country see her grief openly after the sudden death of her son Calvin Jr.

Read the full essay here: https://inpursuit.substack.com/p/grace-coolidge-by-colleen-shogan

09/03/2026

With the primary election in Massachusetts this week, a visitor asked how many times was Calvin Coolidge on the Massachusetts state ballot?
He would run and win for state offices 12 times! In 1906, 1907, 1908 elected State Representative, elected State Senator in 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, elected Lieutenant Governor in 1915, 1916, 1917 and elected Governor in 1918, 1919.

Photo of Calvin Coolidge as President of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1914.