Atlanta, Georgia, December 13, 2016: Denzel Washington reads a book with his Mount Vernon, N.Y. childhood librarian, Connie Mauro. Atria Johnson Ferry/Facebook https://www.cbsnews.com/news/denzel-washington-helps-childhood-librarian-celebrate-her-99th-birthday/ OTD: July 4, 1776 – July 4, 2019 Dear Citizens of Mount Vernon, New York,...
Mount Vernon Public Library, New York. View of the Liberty Road Marker, a permanent reminder to Mount Vernon residents of their ties with the French city of Thionville, was dedicated at the main entrance to the Library on South...
Wailea Known for its five beautiful, crescent-shaped beaches and stellar golf courses, Wailea is a luxurious resort community in South Maui that spans 1,500 acres of land with staggering ocean views. https://www.gohawaii.com/islands/maui Latest: With Love and Aloha: HAPPY...
Paris, France in the Fall of 1947: Ms. Gabrielle Griswold. (Private Collection). This photo shows Blake’s American Aid to France during a Friendship Train Steering Committee meeting, held to discuss Friendship Train distributions throughout France. Blake sits at his...
The 2017 Clements Award winners Steven K. Riley (left), Whitney Walker and Amy Madsen (second from right) pose with Bess and Tyler Abell next to a bust of Earle C. Clements at M.I. King Library Building. UK Photo |...
An American Hero: Heather Heyer (May 29 1985-August 12, 2017), the 32-year-old Charlottesville paralegal murdered by an American Nazi in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. on August 12, 2017. Long Live Lady Liberty! Long Live the spirit of Heather...
January 12, 1946 – New York City The 82nd Airbone Division in the WWII victory march up 5th Avenue in honor of all the units that served during that conflict. It was a great day for the division to...
Nov. 1947: A group of Arkansas officials standing in front of one of the “Friendship Train” cars to be sent to France in the late 1940s. Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives. http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2681 #GRATITUDE #RESISTANCE #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain70 © The...
Bastille Day 2017: La Légion étrangère avec l’Armée française et l’Armée américaine/The French Foreign Legion with the French Army and the U.S. Army. #GRATITUDE #RESISTANCE #FREEDOMOFTHEPRESS #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain70 © The Official French-American Project entirely conceived by Ms. Elisabeth...
The poet Alan Seeger (1888-1916) as French legionnaire in 1916 Photograph: HUD 3567.219.2 no. 296, Harvard University Archives http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/11/alan-seeger #GRATITUDE #RESISTANCE #FREEDOMOFTHEPRESS #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain70 © The Official French-American Project entirely conceived by Ms. Elisabeth JENSSEN to celebrate the...