Coming Soon: Author Charlotte Gray and Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons; Rebroadcast Author Katherine Carter and Churchill's Citadel; Pearl Harbor Day Film Screening
In this issue: Author Charlotte Gray and Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons; Rebroadcast Author Katherine Carter and Churchill's Citadel; Pearl Harbor Day Film Screening; Author James Bradley and Martin Van Buren; The annual Holiday Open House; A Time of Turkey and Tension; Thanksgiving and #TheArtOfWar; FDR and the Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated much of their energies on enabling their sons to reach the epicenter of political power on two continents.
Conversation Rebroadcast
Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
In the 1930s, Winston Churchill found himself out of government and with little power. In these years, Chartwell, his country home in Kent, became the headquarters of his campaign against Nazi Germany. He invited trusted advisors and informants, including Albert Einstein and T. E. Lawrence, to strengthen his hand as he worked to sound the alarm at the prospect of war.
Pearl Harbor Day Film Screening
TORA! TORA! TORA! (1970)
Saturday, December 7
2pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
A retelling of the Pearl Harbor attack details the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history. Air Staff Officer plans the preemptive strike against the United States. Although American intelligence agencies intercept Japanese communications hinting at the attack, they are unwilling to believe such a strike could ever occur on U.S. soil.
Conversation and Book Signing
Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician
with James M. Bradley
Wednesday, December 11
6pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
This biography of Van Buren charts his ascent from a tavern in the Hudson Valley to the presidency, concluding with his late-career involvement in an antislavery movement. Offering vivid profiles of the day's leading figures, it depicts the struggle for power in the tumultuous decades leading up to the Civil War.
Holiday Open House Events
Decorations, Children's Reading Festival, Cards for Sailors, Santa and Refreshments
Wednesday, December 14
9am-5pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is not required.
At the annual Holiday Open House, the Home and Library will be decorated for holidays. Featured books will be read and signed by their authors. The books will be available for purchase. In addition, there will be music, photo time with Santa, and holiday card-making for sailors on the USS FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT.
Refreshments in the visitor center will be served throughout the afternoon.
Second only to Independence Day, Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday bringing with it turkey and tension, cranberries and chaos, and promise and peace, if we just approach it the right way.
(Originally broadcast November 23, 2022; 37:28 minutes)
Need some tips for your Thanksgiving menu? This Army chef has you covered. Just add some "careful seasoning." Mandatory rationing during WWII would mean a holiday with less sugar, coffee, butter, margarine, meat, canned milk, lard, and cheese.
At the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, Thanksgiving was not a fixed holiday; it was up to the President to issue a Thanksgiving Proclamation to announce what date the holiday would fall on.
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"Whatever our individual circumstances or opportunities, we are all in it, and our spirit is good... and do not let anyone tell you anything different." FDR, Oct 12, 1942, fireside chat.
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