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bullcat jr.:
My Mom and Dad went to Top Cottage in Hyde Park, NY before I was born.
I never knew that! ;)
FDR is holding his dog Fala in the picture. I just got a new puppy.
Well I'm going to school in a few minutes. Have a good day.
nessuno:
I think I made an error this morning when I told BullCat Jr. that we visited Top Cottage. What we actually visited was Van-Kill. Eleanor and her Lady Friends ;) retreat.
www.nps.gov/elro
cjd:
--- Quote from: bullcat jr. on September 25, 2007, 06:27:56 AM ---
My Mom and Dad went to Top Cottage in Hyde Park, NY before I was born.
I never knew that! ;)
FDR is holding his dog Fala in the picture. I just got a new puppy.
Well I'm going to school in a few minutes. Have a good day.
--- End quote ---
New puppies are a lot of fun!! You and your mom found a great picture of FDR one of the few that show the fact that he was unable to walk. That picture was taken on the front porch of Top Cottage by Margaret (Daisey) Suckley FDR's cousin . She use to pal around with him all the time and was actually with him when he died at The Little White House in Warm Springs Ga. You can visit Daisey's home Wilderstein in Rinebeck N.Y. its a great old house thats exactly how she left it when she died at the age of about 100. I was able to visit Wilderstein soon after it was open to the public and it needed a lot of restoration. Its good to see they are getting it done.
http://www.wilderstein.org/about.html
I have seen the other two Roosevelt homes Springwood and Van Kill. Springwood was the Roosevelt family home and Van Kill was a house FDR built for his wife Elenore Roosevelt.
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/frdcsb2.html
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/frdcsb4.html
You should get your mom and dad to take you to see all four homes you will have a great time. There are also some other big houses there where other very rich folks lived and you can visit them also. I have have not seen Top Cottage yet I will have to visit there the next time I go up to Hyde Park N.Y. It was not open to the public yet the last time I was up in that neighborhood. There is also one other Roosevelt home where FDR liked to vacation. It was there that he became sick and became unable to walk. See if you can come up with the name of that home.
cjd:
--- Quote from: bullcat3 on September 25, 2007, 09:46:01 AM ---I think I made an error this morning when I told BullCat Jr. that we visited Top Cottage. What we actually visited was Van-Kill. Eleanor and her Lady Friends ;) retreat.
www.nps.gov/elro
--- End quote ---
Yes Top Cottage has only been open to the public for a short time. Van Kill is also a interesting home and the history of Eleanor and her friends there is quite a tale :o In some of his braver moments FDR would go over and swim with the sharks (Eleanor's so called lady friends) in the Van Kill pool. It seems Eleanor's friends were key players in the woman's movement and civil rights activities of the day. One of Eleanor's closest friends was Lorena Hickok a journalist.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/hickok-lorena.htm
bullcat jr.:
With my Mom's help we came up with Campobello. Is that right?
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