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 VIVISPHERE PUBLISHING PRESENTS ROOSEVELT EXHIBIT TO MOHONK MOUTAIN HOUSE PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: November 20, 2002 CONTACT: Ronnie Brokaw - 845.463.1100 NEW PALTZ, NY - Theodore Roosevelt’s close association to Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY, and his friendship with its founders, Albert and Alfred Smiley, provided the occasion recently for the presentation of a special exhibit to Mohonk celebrating the completion of the 26th President’s first year in office (1901 - 1902). Nina Smiley, director of marketing for Mohonk Mountain House accepted the exhibit on behalf of Mohonk from William Grogg, president of Vivisphere Publishing, Poughkeepsie, NY. Vivisphere designed and contributed the special exhibit in connection with the recent publication of THE PRESIDENT’S WEEKEND, a historical novel written by David D. Reed which weaves a tale of mystery, political intrigue, and suspense based upon a visit of Theodore Roosevelt to the famed Mountain House. The exhibit includes copies of three letters written by Roosevelt to Albert and Daniel Smiley in 1900 and 1901. Two letters were written to Daniel Smiley in 1900 in relation to Daniels appointment by Roosevelt - then governor of New York - to a special state commission to provide for assisting the welfare of American Indians residing on reservations in New York patterned after the Annual National Convention of "Friends of the Indians" hosted by the Smileys at Mohonk in 1872 and attended by the country’s leading civic, religious and political leaders of the day including Theodore Roosevelt who represented United States President Benjamin Harrison at the 1892 Conference. The third letter was written to Albert Smiley on September 7, 1901, by the then United States Vice-President Roosevelt, from Buffalo, New York, to which Theodore Roosevelt had been hurriedly dispatched upon the assassination attempt on President William Mckinley on the afternoon of September 6th. The letter was a statement of regret by Roosevelt to Albert Smiley announcing that he would be unable to attend the 18th Annual Conference of "The Friends of the American Indians" to be held at Mohonk on October 26, 1901 (Roosevelt’s reason, we may speculate, being the state of National Emergency precipitated by McKinley’s critical condition after being shot twice by an anarchist, Leon Cooley). President McKinley died early in the morning of September 14, 1901 and Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States. |
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