"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
Library at Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon staffers, Jessie MacLeod (Associate Curator) and Mary V. Thompson (Research Historian) look on as Ford descendants view documents from the Mount Vernon archives.
