[infolink-l] New Brunswick Free Public Library to Host Presidential Library Exhibit

[Bob Belvin]

In 2009, as the next president of the United States is inaugurated into 
office, the New Brunswick Free Public Library will present to the public 
“John Adams Unbound,” an exhibition of the second President of the 
United States’ library. The New Brunswick Free Public Library is the 
first of only twenty libraries in the nation to host this exhibit. After 
the exhibit leaves New Brunswick, it will cross the country until 
returning to Boston in 2012.

“John Adams Unbound” will be on display in the library from January 26 
to March 6, 2009. The exhibition will feature selections from John 
Adam’s personal library, as well as graphics, maps, portraits, and photo 
reproductions of personal objects. The collection provides first-hand 
insight into how John Adams shaped American history and how he was 
shaped by his own moment in history through his lifelong dedication to 
reading and books.

A series of programming will accompany “John Adams Unbound” featuring 
lectures by local historians and a history theatre presentation for 
youth featuring the characters of John and Abigail Adams.

Awarded to the New Brunswick Free Public Library by the National 
Endowment for the Humanities, “John Adams Unbound” was developed by the 
American Library Association and Boston Public Library. For more 
information about the “John Adams” exhibition, please contact Laura 
Szalaj at 732-745-5108, ext. 20, or by email at Lszalaj@lmxac.org.

-- 
       Robert J. Belvin, Ph.D.
   New Brunswick Free Public Library
60 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick NJ 08901
   732.745.5271  bbelvin at lmxac.org

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be
our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts
and evidence." John Adams, Argument in Defense of
the British Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials
December 4, 1770.