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Speaker 1: But right now, let's say good morning to the chief

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Speaker 1: Marketing office for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, Melissa Geller.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Melissa, Hi, thanks for having me today. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for getting up early to tell us about the special

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Speaker 1: Christmas display you have going on at the Riggan Library.

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Speaker 1: I was saying earlier that I always love going up

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Speaker 1: to the library because it's so informative, and it's just

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Speaker 1: it's a great, beautiful, beautiful venue. And now it's all

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Speaker 1: Christmas doubt, and so what are we going to see

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Speaker 1: when we go see it? Now?

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Speaker 2: It sure is. So you know, we're sort of celebrating

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Speaker 2: the full year of America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

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Speaker 2: So our Christmas Tree exhibition this year is twenty six trees,

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Speaker 2: each tree decorated to one decade of America's history. So

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Speaker 2: you know, there's a tree for you know, seventeen seventy

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Speaker 2: to seventy nine or eighty to eighty nine or whatever

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Speaker 2: it is. And in that tree you'll find dozens and

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Speaker 2: dozens of summer actual artifacts, some are just recreations to

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Speaker 2: really get you into the history, the nostalgia, the popular

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Speaker 2: culture of each decade.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and you're not only talking about political things, but like, oh, thanks,

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Speaker 1: like tell us about what there's the first airplane, So

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Speaker 1: is there a whole tree that's on airplanes?

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Speaker 2: So there is a tree. I believe that is Gosh,

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Speaker 2: now I'm trying to rumb up the top of my head.

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Speaker 2: It might be in the early nineteen hundreds. I believe

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Speaker 2: there is a tree, and that tree has the Wright brothers.

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Speaker 2: So there's a whole huge tree, a whole plane in

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Speaker 2: the tree. That's also the same decade that Henry Ford

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Speaker 2: invented the Model T. So there's a little car in

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Speaker 2: the tree. And then anything else that happened in that

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Speaker 2: decade is there as well, like the in the eighteen

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Speaker 2: ninety three it's the first time America ever saw a

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Speaker 2: ferris wheel. So at the very top of the tree,

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Speaker 2: instead of a star, instead of an angel, there's this

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Speaker 2: really big ferris wheel.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and then you have some fun with it too,

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Speaker 1: because you had mentioned that they go back into our history,

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Speaker 1: like there's a declaration of Independence is on the tree,

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Speaker 1: Constitution on the tree, right.

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Speaker 2: Right, So our first decade, of course, seventeen seventy to

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Speaker 2: seventeen seventy nine, where we're sort of transitioning from colony

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Speaker 2: to country. So it talks about Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

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Speaker 2: and it talks about the declaration of Independence in the

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Speaker 2: Boston Tea Party. So those are the types of things

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Speaker 2: you'll find in that tree. Every tree, however, many presidents

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Speaker 2: we're president in that tree, you find that there you

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Speaker 2: find which amendments were sort of ratified in each of

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Speaker 2: the trees. And then some trees are really heavy and

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Speaker 2: popular culture, like in the fifties, Doctor Seuss released Cat

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Speaker 2: and the Hat. There's a Doctor SEUs in the tree,

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Speaker 2: the Barbie launched, I Love Lucy launched. Those are the

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Speaker 2: kind of like fun things in the tree as well.

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Speaker 3: Okay, and then you have do you have a whole

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Speaker 3: tree for President Reagan?

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Speaker 2: We do. In addition to the twenty six trees, we

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Speaker 2: have one tree that has the actual ornaments that President

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Speaker 2: Missus Reagan used in their tree. We have a whole

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Speaker 2: display of minoras. And then we also have a gold

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Speaker 2: Star Memorial Tree, which is a tree dedicated to those

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Speaker 2: who sort of you know, sacrifice a loved one for

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Speaker 2: our military, and we encourage gold Star family members to

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Speaker 2: bring up an ornament with their loved one's photo or

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Speaker 2: name on it, and we will put it on the

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Speaker 2: tree and it will stay in the tree every year

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Speaker 2: it goes up.

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Speaker 1: Cool, Okay, And then we have a little fun with

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Speaker 1: it too, because you also have a tribute to beanie babies.

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Speaker 2: Oh, so of course you have to have you know,

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Speaker 2: the trees with the beanie babies. I believe that might

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Speaker 2: be the eighties, and you know, and also in the

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Speaker 2: eighties pac Man, MTV cheers and there's even a little

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Speaker 2: Bob Ross in the nineteen eighties tree.

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Speaker 3: It's a very friendly little tree, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's a very friendly tree.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then you also pay tribute to like how could

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Speaker 1: we do without this personal computers?

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Speaker 2: So that one's pretty incredible because that one is a

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Speaker 2: real like laptop computer that must weigh fifteen or twenty pounds,

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Speaker 2: and it is sitting in there because whenever we could

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Speaker 2: actually use a real item from the real era, it

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Speaker 2: is in the tree. So we have a real laptop

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Speaker 2: that is, you know, the size of a monster toaster

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Speaker 2: sitting in that tree.

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Speaker 1: Okay. And then Melissa, where are the trees all in

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Speaker 1: one space or are they scattered throughout the grounds?

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Speaker 2: The twenty six trees are all in our Air Force

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Speaker 2: one pavilion. The other two trees and the manors are scattered.

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Speaker 2: But the nice thing about the Tree Exhibition is that

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Speaker 2: we don't raise our prices. So when you come to

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Speaker 2: the Reagan Library, that one ticket gets you into the museum,

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Speaker 2: it gets you into the Air Force one pavilion, it

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Speaker 2: gets you into our Tree Exhibition, and it also gets

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Speaker 2: you into our other special exhibition, which is Cowboys History

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Speaker 2: in Hollywood. So all one ticket, you get everything.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And as I mentioned, we've been up there several times.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't been up to the Reagan Library, it

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Speaker 1: really is.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's in a.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful place, beautiful views and then all of the stuff

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Speaker 1: that's in the library. I just love it up there.

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Speaker 1: So it's very peaceful, educational, and a great way to

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Speaker 1: spend the afternoon.

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Speaker 2: It is with great views all the way out to

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Speaker 2: the ocean.

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Speaker 3: Okay. And then Melissa, when what is this exhibit going?

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's going now, But does it go through

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Speaker 1: and after Christmas as well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually goes through the New Year. So it closes

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Speaker 2: on January fourth, and Santa does visit every Friday, Saturday

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Speaker 2: and Sunday so you can come get your family photo

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Speaker 2: there as well.

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Speaker 3: Good to know.

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Speaker 1: Melissa Geller with the Reagan Presidential Library Foundation.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Now I'm just like going, I

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Speaker 3: got to get up there.

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Speaker 2: We hope to have you out there soon, all right.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Melissa. Have a great day you too.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: It really is a great way to spend the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: And I love the idea of the trees and the

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Speaker 1: whole computer. Yeah, very cool in the tree and that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I dig that kind of stuff. And

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Speaker 1: who doesn't want to see a bunch of decorated Christmas trees, right,