WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley received information from the Library of Congress regarding traveling exhibition stops in Iowa. The Library of Congress’s Traveling Exhibition will stop in Grinnell, Cedar Falls, and Mason City. The locations, times and dates are below.
October 29-30, 2010
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Grinnell College
1115 Eighth Ave.
Grinnell, Iowa 50112
November 2-3, 2010
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Waterloo Public Library
415 Commercial St.
Waterloo, Iowa 50701
November 5-6, 2010
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Southbridge Mall
100 S. Federal Ave.
Mason City, Iowa 50401
Visitors can tour several areas of museum styled exhibits organized along Thomas Jefferson’s theme of “Memory, Reason, and Imagination.” The exhibits include facsimiles of Library treasures, including the Declaration of Independence, the first document to use the word “America,” the 1455 Guttenberg Bible, Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” and much more. There will also be computer terminals with interactive displays and Library information.
The traveling exhibition was made possible by a $1 million private donation; no tax dollars were used to fund this project.