Remnant Trust: a little piece of history

A nice article in the C-J from Jenna Esarey about the Remnant Trust in the old Carnegie Library in Jeffersonville...

The relief-au-bas in front is inspirational as well.

Most Americans have read the Declaration of Independence. And many have seen an original copy of the document under glass and heavy security at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

But few have been able to hold and read one of the documents that established The United States of America as a unique experiment in self-government.

Visitors to the Remnant Trust, at 129 E. Court Ave., in downtown Jeffersonville, can do just that and more.

The Trust is a repository for original and first edition works, some dating to before 1250 A.D., dealing with individual liberty and human dignity....

Founded in 1997, the Remnant Trust is the brainchild of Brian Bex, an Indiana University graduate and longtime political commentator in central Indiana.

Part of the Trust's mission is "to be the world's finest repository of the great ideas that have propelled Man through the centuries from earth to the stars ... to be free, to think, speak and act in keeping with the greatest of enduring assets: Reason, with justice for all ..."