[WEB4LIB] Honoring

[Scott Drone-Silvers]

Hear him! Hear him!

on 9/28/01 10:02 AM, Robert L. DeCandido at bronxbob at well.com wrote:

> I just wanted to take a moment to share with this community an idea. One
> that, perhaps, others have had. In addition to displaying a flag The
> Pierpont Morgan Library has placed on display a copy of the Declaration
> of Independence. Being a library of special collections, it's one of the
> 25 extant copies of the first printing. But that's not the point. As
> libraries making a gesture with words and ideas, with documents, seems
> appropriate and more significant. The point is to remember what the flag
> stands for. As the signers said:
> 
> "...we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our
> sacred Honor."
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> --
> Robert DeCandido
> Database Coordinator
> The Pierpont Morgan Library
> 29 East 36th Street
> New York, NY  10016
> 
> TEL: 212-590-0385
> FAX: 212-685-4740
> NET: rdecandido at morganlibrary.org
> 
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Scott Drone-Silvers
Director, Learning Resource Center
Lake Land College
5001 Lakeland Blvd.
Mattoon, IL 61938
(217) 234-5338 / FAX (217) 258-6459
Web Page: http://www.lakeland.cc.il.us/library/