December 06, 2018
Schedule
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Celebrate Christmas at the Reagan Library and find the perfect gift! On Thursday, December 6th from 12 noon until 5pm, author and historian Mary Evans Seeley will visit our Reagan Library Museum Store. Her book, Season’s Greetings is an anthology of priceless Christmas stories from our American presidents. What a perfect gift! She’ll sign your book and regale stories of her historical journey in a casual, carefree, holiday setting right in our Museum Store.
This event is free to attend, no reservations required!
Mary Evans Seeley is a collector, historian, lecturer, author and publisher of two books about Christmas at the White House. She and her husband, Ronald, have the most extensive collection of Presidential Christmas memorabilia in the country. Parts of The Seeley Collection have been on display at the White House on two occasions and have been on exhibit at ten Presidential Libraries.
Encouraged by White House Curator, Rex Scouten to write "Season's Greetings from the White House," Mrs. Seeley has visited 12 Presidential libraries and birth places, met Presidents Reagan and Bush, interviewed Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, Rosalyn Carter, and Betty Ford, received communications from Lady Bird Johnson, the Clinton White House and the First Ladies Office of MelaniaTrump White House, and talked with First Family children, including John Coolidge.