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DALLAS (ÎÞÂëרÇø) – Colonial America will come alive on the ÎÞÂëרÇø campus July 20 at ÎÞÂëרÇø Community Day, inspired by the  of George Washington’s copy of the U.S. Constitution.

Kids can write with a quill pen, make a yarn toy or play Colonial games. A fife and drum corps and historical interpreters in costume will set the tone from 9 a.m. to noon on the Laura Bush Promenade west of the Fondren Library Center.

Visitors to ÎÞÂëרÇø Community Day will receive a 20 percent off coupon to the George W. Bush Presidential Center for July 20, where Community Day continues in the afternoon with an exhibit of presidential artifacts from James Monroe to Ronald Reagan, hands-on Mount Vernon activities and a video presentation..

George Washington’s personal copy of the Acts of Congress, which includes the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and other legislation passed by the first session of Congress,  July 14-27 at ÎÞÂëרÇø’s DeGolyer Library. The 106-page volume is emblazoned with Washington’s bookplate and includes his handwritten notes in the margins. The DeGolyer exhibit is sponsored by the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, which opened May 1 on the ÎÞÂëרÇø campus.

Washington’s document will be part of DeGolyer Library’s summer exhibit, “Hail to the Chief: American Presidential History in Word and Image,” July 14 - Oct. 4. The exhibit will include presidential political memorabilia such as campaign biographies, letters, posters, buttons, cartoons, inaugural medals, photographs and other artifacts, from George Washington to Barack Obama.

ÎÞÂëרÇø Community Day

George W. Bush Library and Museum Community Day

 for parking information for Community Day and Hail to the Chief at DeGolyer Library.