Black River Academy Museum. 14 High St., Ludlow, VT 05149. (802) 228-5050. A special Coolidge section of this local historical museum is devoted to its most famous graduate.

Calvin Coolidge Memorial Room. Forbes Library, 20 West St., Northampton, MA 01060. (413) 587-1014. Coolidge artifacts, as well as his personal and presidential papers, are housed in this public library, in the town he lived in before and after he was president. See http://www.gazettenet.com/forbeslibrary/coolidge.html (accessed on August 31, 2000).

Plymouth Notch Historic District. Vermont Route 100A, Box 79, Plymouth, VT 05056. (802) 672-3773. This majestic site includes the birthplace of Calvin Coolidge, the home in which he took the presidential oath from his father, the church he attended, the town store (whose upstairs was converted into a temporary White House when the president would visit), a museum, and the cemetery in which the president, his family, and...