Library of Congress in Twinsburg
Saturday, July 10, 2010
U.S. Rep. Steven C. LaTourette (R-OH)
will welcome a traveling exhibit from the world-renowned Library of
Congress Friday morning at the Twinsburg Public Library.
A welcome ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, October
8, at the library at 10050 Ravenna Road in Twinsburg. The
traveling "Gateway to Knowledge" exhibition will be open to the
public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8, and Saturday, Oct.
9. There is no cost to visit the exhibit.
The "Gateway to Knowledge" exhibition, mounted in a custom
18-wheel truck, is visiting states across the Midwest and South,
and is visiting Twinsburg at the Congressman's request.
"The Library of Congress is a national treasure and I'm
delighted to welcome the traveling exhibition to Twinsburg,"
LaTourette said. "Those who visit will see everything from
copies of treasures like Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of
Independence with edits by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to
original 1962 drawings from the first Spiderman comic book."
The traveling exhibit was recently on the Mall in Washington,
DC, as part of the National Book Festival. The Library
of Congress was founded in 1800 and is the country's oldest federal
cultural institution.
LaTourette thanked Librarian of Congress James H. Billington for
sharing the Library with Twinsburg, and noted that the Library's
Veterans History Project earlier visited the district to collect
veterans' stories. After the Twinsburg visit, the exhibit
will head to Oberlin College and Troy, OH. Its first Ohio
stop was in Marietta.