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Churchill and the Great Public Exhibition
On
D-Day, 2004, the Library will open a landmark public exhibition on the
remarkable life and career of Sir Winston Churchill. The exhibition
will feature, for the first time in the United States, the Churchill
Papers, Sir Winston's own enormous archive, containing everything from
his childhood letters and school reports to his final writings. After
the premiere at the Library of Congress, the exhibition will be available
for presentation in up to three additional venues across the United
States.
The National Book Festival
Building
on the tremendous success of the first National Book Festival, the Library
will again join forces with the first lady to present a second festival
celebrating reading and literacy for learners of all ages. This year's
festival will be held on the West Front Lawn of the United States Capitol
and the lower end of the national Mall, and will feature distinguished
authors and illustrators from all genres, storytelling, musical performances,
storybook characters, informational clinics on copyright and conservation,
demonstrations by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped, digital learning experiences and an array of other activities
and experiences for young and old alike.
The Waldseemuller Map
The
only known surviving copy of the first map to bear the name of America,
often called "the baptismal certificate of the New World,"
will be the crown jewel on the library's already unparalleled collection
of globes and atlases. The world map, a woodcut print on paper in 12
sections, 8 by 4½ feet altogether, is thought to be the first
cartographic depiction of the Americas as a land mass separate from
Asia.
The Dream of Flight: Romance and Realization
In
2003, the Library of Congress will commemorate the first century of
powered flight with an exhibition celebrating the Wright Brothers' historic
powered flight of December 17, 1903. The Library will draw upon its
unparalleled collection of aeronautica (documents, letters, prints,
rare books, maps, photographs, motion pictures and selected artifacts
from other institutions) to present a major exhibition that will examine
mankind's nearly universal dream of flying and how it was suddenly transformed
from an aspiration to a reality by the Wright Brothers. The exhibition
will be presented in the Library's magnificent Jefferson Building.
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