The continuation of our
Gallery Talks series with a discussion of the 2016-2017 Richmond
Gallery exhibition, The Presidents at the Monmouth County Shore. One
hundred years ago, in September 1916, 25,000 people gathered on the
grounds of what is today Monmouth University, then a private estate
called Shadow Lawn, to see Woodrow Wilson officially accept the nomination of the Democratic Party for a second Presidential run.
Wilson was following a popular tradition among American Presidents to
retreat to our slice of the Jersey Shore to escape the heat and the hubbub of Washington. This exhibit told the wide-ranging stories of
thirteen Presidents who spent time here, at the Monmouth County
shore.
Peggy Dellinger, Exhibit
Director of the Township of Ocean Historical Museum discusses the
exhibition; Produced by Ted Dellinger; Music is by Bill Madden.
Funding for Gallery Talks
was provided by the New Jersey Cultural Trust.
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