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- <p align="left"><font face="Verdana" size="2">On August 15. 2005 Brian Bex,
- founder of the Remnant Trust, personally delivered over 48 major rare and first
- edition manuscripts to be exhibited and used at the University of Farmington
- during the Fall Semester 2005. The exhibition was celebrated with a dinner
- held on-campus and attended by Mr. Bex, community leaders, students, and members
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- faculty and administration of UMF. </font></p>
- <p align="left"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Brian Bex spoke briefly about his
- belief that the Remnant Trust will help the next generation know and understand
- the great writers, philosophers, and thinkers who changed our culture and gave
- us the concepts of freedom and individual dignity we enjoy today. By
- seeing, touching and reading the original works, students gain a better sense of
- the reality of the past and its continuity with the present. </font></p>
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- <p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Brian Bex, founder of the Remnant Trust,
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- <img border="0" src="pictures/banquet/DSCN0717w.jpg" width="300" height="269" alt="President Kalikow examines Milton's Areopagitica - linked to close-up"></a><a href="pictures/banquet/DSCN0738wl.jpg"><img border="0" src="pictures/banquet/DSCN0738wsf.jpg" alt="Emancipation Proclamation - linked to enlargement" width="359" height="269"></a></p>
- <p><font face="Verdana" size="2">On the left, President Kalikow reads Milton's
- Areopagitica, <br>on the right, the Emancipation Proclamation.
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- <td width="100%"><blockquote><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><br>Reading Revolutions was jointly sponsored by the University of Maine at Farmington and the Remnant Trust. It was partially funded by the Maine Humanities Council with support
- from the National Endowment for the Humanities through its We the People
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- <br><br>Over forty rare editions or works central to changes in our history were included in the project. Commentary and discussion may be found by accessing the alphabetical list. <br><br>URL: <a href="http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Reading_Revolutions/index.html">http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Reading_Revolutions/index.html</a> <br><br>Marilyn Shea, 2005<br><br>
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