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Alexander Hamilton Exhibit Coming to Library Center Aug. 8-Sept. 4; Watch Look Who's Talking Videos on YouTube

July 28, 2016 — “Hamilton” on Broadway is fetching $350-plus for show tickets, but you can see the real Hamilton for free from Aug. 8-Sept. 4 at the Library Center.

It’s a multi-panel exhibit, “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America.” There’s no hip hop soundtrack or dancing chorus, but plenty of surprising and inspiring insights into the man.

Scholars agree that Hamilton’s vision in the Founding period shaped the America we live in, 200 years after his death. The exhibit reveals the man who guided the financial, political, social, journalistic, foreign policy and legal systems of the young country. His ideas on racial equality and economic diversity were so far ahead of their time that it took the nation decades to catch up with them.

The exhibit uses reproductions from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and the Library of the New York Historical Society.

Among the uninitiated, Hamilton is better known for the duel that claimed his life in 1804. In a nod to his unfortunate end – and our great fortune in hosting the exhibit – the Mudhouse at the Library Center has created a special drink that month.

It’s a mocha latte with caramel, orange syrup and two shots of espresso – “Hamilton’s Duel.”
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We kept adding chairs at the July 19 program, Look Who’s Talking, at the Library Center until 105 people were seated and leaning in to hear seven mini-lectures at a TED Talk-like event.

Amy Blansit of the Fairbanks project tugged at our hearts. Todd Parnell had us laughing about his blend of Ozarks storytelling. Scientists Jim Lamb and Rishi Patel blew our minds with microelectronics and nano-tech talk. Jeremy Clopton told us why millennials aren’t the problem. Cody Stringer shared why our ideas are worthless (execution is key), and Keith Ray Mackie gave us reason to believe in our significance.

If you missed this rare event, you can catch each of their talks on the Library’s YouTube channel, SpringfieldGreene.

Watch for future events to spotlight our area’s most interesting, innovative thinkers.


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