FREE HOLIDAY EVENTS AT
FDR PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND
HOME OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, VAL-KILL
December 10, 2022
Holiday Open Houses with Decorations,
Children's Reading Festival,
Live Music, Holiday Cards for Sailors
on the USS ROOSEVELT, Pictures with Santa
HYDE PARK, NY -- On Saturday, December 10, 2022, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Home of FDR National Historic Site will host a full day of free holiday events. The Roosevelt Library will be open to visitors free of charge from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Home of FDR (Springwood) will have tours available from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. There will be holiday decorations, refreshments and special activities -- including the annual Children's Reading Festival and free photos with Santa -- beginning at Noon in the Henry A. Wallace Center. In addition, Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (Val-Kill) will be decorated for the holidays and open from 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Children's Reading Festival, Santa and Holiday Cards for Sailors
The annual Children's Reading Festival -- presented by the Roosevelt Library and the Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District -- will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on December 10, 2022. Children's book authors will read from and sign copies of their books. Featured books will be available for purchase in the New Deal Store in the Wallace Center.
Children's Reading Festival authors include:
1:30 p.m.
Lu Ann Schnable Kaldor and Eve S. Gendron
THE ANGELS ON MY TREE
2:15 p.m.
Karen Finnegan
JOLENE, THE DISABILITY AWARENESS CHICKEN
3:00 p.m.
Barbara Ann Mojica
LITTLE MISS HISTORY TRAVELS TO HYDE PARK, HOME OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM
In addition, there will be live music, free photos with Santa from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., and children can make holiday cards for sailors on the USS FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (more info) beginning at Noon. Refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon in the Wallace Center lobby.
Holiday Open House - December 10, 2022 - Roosevelt Library and Home, Val-Kill
Holiday Open House on December 10 is from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Home of FDR National Historic Site and at the Roosevelt Library. Both the Home and the Roosevelt Library study will be decorated for the holidays as they were during the Roosevelt presidency. Admission is free to the Home and Library throughout the day.
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (Val-Kill) will also be free, decorated for the holidays, and open to visitors from 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on December 10.
For more information please call: Cliff Laube, Roosevelt Library, (845) 486-7745; or Franceska Macsali Urbin, National Park Service, (845) 229‑6225.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidential Library and Museum
