Acknowl­edgments I have encountered many helpful ­ people in the pro­cess of research and writing this book. I owe special thanks to the following: Karie Diethorn, Chief Curator at In­ de ­ pen­ dence National Historical Park, for help in locating a critical resource Tyler Love, Archivist and Library Man­ag­er at the In­de­pen­dence National His- torical Park, for helping to arrange a visit and locate relevant information in the archives Robert Giannini, Associate Curator, In­ de ­ pen­ dence National Historical Park, for locating valuable information and answering queries Tim Verdin and Pat Bradley of the Verdin Bell Com­pany in Cincinnati, Ohio Jim Lewis, with the Park Ser­ vice at the Stones River Battlefield National Park in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for help in locating a critical resource Pam Middleton, at the ­Middle Tennessee State University Inter-­Library Loan Office, for ordering numerous outside resources, and Sharan Parente, at the Refer- ence Desk, for helping with queries Dr. Mary Evins of ­ Middle Tennessee State University, for referring me to an impor­tant index Professor Charlene Mires, at Rutgers University at Camden, for answering a query Dr. Philip Phillips, Associate Dean of the Honors College, and Carolle Morini, at the Boston Athenaeum, for helping me to track down the identity of a nineteenth-­ century poet Professor Miles Orvell, Professor of En­glish and American Studies at ­ Temple University, for providing helpful information regarding a source Rachel K. Morris, of the ­ Middle Tennessee State University Center for Popu­ lar ­ Music, for helping me to locate sheet ­ music and images of the Liberty Bell Linda C. Vile, who faithfully accompanied me to the In­de­pen­dence National His- torical Park and helped complete the chart documenting cities and towns that the Liberty Bell visited Morgan Murphy and Susan Lyons, who helped with format- ting this manuscript, and Jeffrey Summers, who helped retrieve information from the Internet. Although I have never met them, I owe special thanks to John C. Paige and David C. Kimball, who wrote and edited The Liberty Bell: A Special Study, respec- tively to Gary B. Nash, who wrote The Liberty Bell and to Victor Rosewater,
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