Tompkins
County Public Library, in partnership with Cornell University’s Division of
Rare and Manuscript Collections, will host Priceline.com founder Jay Walker for
“Discovering Imagination in American History,” October 27 at 1 p.m. in the
BorgWarner Community Room.
A 1977 Cornell graduate, Walker will offer his personal insight into how the conception of America as a representative democracy was one of history’s greatest leaps of imagination and discuss the anastatic copy of the Declaration of Independence currently on display at the Library.
On-loan from Walker’s private collection, “The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination,” the Declaration of Independence is one of only two-known copies created through the anastatic process.
Housed in Walker’s Ridgefield, CT home, the 3,600 square feet “Walker Library. . .” exhibits dozens of museum-quality artifacts and rare manuscripts including, an original 1957 Russian Sputnik and a 1699 atlas containing the first maps to show the sun, not the earth, as the center of the known universe.
During his TCPL talk, Walker will also discuss and showcase other items from his collection, illustrating the imaginative high points of U.S. history.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Sally Grubb at (607) 272-4557 extension 232 or sgrubb@tcpl.org.
A 1977 Cornell graduate, Walker will offer his personal insight into how the conception of America as a representative democracy was one of history’s greatest leaps of imagination and discuss the anastatic copy of the Declaration of Independence currently on display at the Library.
On-loan from Walker’s private collection, “The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination,” the Declaration of Independence is one of only two-known copies created through the anastatic process.
Housed in Walker’s Ridgefield, CT home, the 3,600 square feet “Walker Library. . .” exhibits dozens of museum-quality artifacts and rare manuscripts including, an original 1957 Russian Sputnik and a 1699 atlas containing the first maps to show the sun, not the earth, as the center of the known universe.
During his TCPL talk, Walker will also discuss and showcase other items from his collection, illustrating the imaginative high points of U.S. history.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Sally Grubb at (607) 272-4557 extension 232 or sgrubb@tcpl.org.
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