Back when Donald served on its board and his wife, Kathleen, was its executive director, the foundation was a "backroom operation with a very limited budget," focused on preserving the homestead and Coolidge's memory.
"Being that I've been here just about all my life, I know just about everybody in town," the wiry, bespectacled man said last Friday afternoon from behind the post office counter in the tiny, southern Vermont village, just south of Killington.ĭonald couldn't say the same about the conservative donors who, in recent years, have taken over the sleepy historical society once known as the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. The 73-year-old postmaster's commute bisects the Calvin Coolidge Homestead, a compact collection of buildings that have stood largely unchanged since 1923, when America's 30th president swore the oath of office by lamplight in his childhood home.
Six days a week, John Donald walks a quarter mile from his Plymouth Notch farmhouse to the hilltop hamlet's tiny post office, where he works part-time as its sole employee. Calvin Coolidge's birthplace and church in Plymouth Notch.
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