Washington exhibition to open in Mount Vernon, Va., Sept. 27

A letter signed by the first President of the United States George Washington is on display at a press preview for the 59th annual Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York in New York City on January 24, 2013. The show is open to the public January 25-February 3, 2013 and features 73 exhibitors, including eight new to the show, and thousands of works of fine art, furniture, and decorative objects. UPI/John Angelillo?

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Published: Sept. 6, 2013 at 11:59 AM

MOUNT VERNON, Va., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- An exhibition focusing on what America's first president, George Washington, read and wrote is to open this month in Mount Vernon, Va.

"Take Note! Washington the Reader" is to begin Sept. 27 and run through Jan. 12. The exhibition at Washington's former home coincides with the opening of the estate's Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.

"Visitors often think of George Washington as a man of action, but behind the rebel and the leader was a critical, inquisitive reader," Washington's Mount Vernon museum curator Susan P. Schoelwer said in a statement. "In this exhibit, we're thrilled to display some incredible and rarely-seen Washington books, notes, and letters that help us get inside his mind and begin to map the intellectual networks of which he was a part."

Source: http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2013/09/06/Washington-exhibition-to-open-in-Mount-Vernon-Va-Sept-27/UPI-15521378483177/

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