Taken in either late 1927 before traveling to Georgia or early 1928 after returning from Sapelo Island, President Coolidge is pictured here with a rain coat surrounded by a colorful group of fellow Americans visiting the White House. Mr. Coolidge must be prepared for moving day…as he commented upon leaving the Presidency, March 1929: “It always rains on moving days…”
President and Mrs. Coolidge spent the Christmas of 1928 with H. E. Coffin and his wife on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Here is Coolidge as he goes hunting, first for deer and then for wild fowl with Mr. Coffin and Colonel Latrobe. The video, with sound, begins and ends with beautiful singing by the party accompanying the hunters on ox carts.
The Coolidge family, ever closely-knit, is pictured here in the heat of Washington summer. Coolidge held devotedly to the importance of the nuclear family. Colonel Coolidge is down from Plymouth Notch to be with his son, daughter-in-law, and oldest grandson, John (who was just shy of turning eighteen). It was the first family photo after the death of young Calvin.
The Importance of the Obvious 