In this issue: Hudson Valley Ice Yachts; Resolutions, the Roosevelt's and You; Author Rebecca Brenner Graham and Dear Miss Perkins; Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday; Author Harvey Kaye on "FDR on Democracy"; Martha Sawyers and #TheArtOfWar; Making His List and Checking It Twice.
Keeping those New Year's resolutions can be difficult even in the best of times. Fortify your resolutions with wisdom and insight from two people who saw this country through some of the worst times of the 20th century, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Presentation and Book Signing
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
with Rebecca Brenner Graham
January 27, 2025
2pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required for in-person attendance. CLICK HEREto register.
This inspiring new narrative of the first woman to serve in a president’s cabinet reveals the full, never-before-told story of her role in saving Jewish refugees during the Nazi regime.
Free public event. Registration is not required for in-person attendance.
The National Park Service will hold a Rose Garden Ceremony to commemorate Franklin Roosevelt's Birthday. Following the ceremony, the FDR Presidential Library will invite attendees to return to the Wallace Center for birthday cake and refreshments.
Author Harvey Kaye discusses FDR on Democracy. In this book of his key speeches and writings, we rediscover FDR's vision of equality, liberty, and social democracy. His words empowered a generation and shaped the nation’s future.
(Originally broadcast December 18, 2024; 39:33 minutes)
Texas native and artist Martha Sawyers traveled the South Pacific and Asia during the 1920s and 30s with her husband William Reusswig. The couple eventually settled in Beijing until Japan’s invasion of China in 1937. During WWII she was a war correspondent and illustrator for Collier’s and LIFE.
The holiday season brings about the list maker in all of us, well, at least in those of us who give gifts — or make lists. The President certainly took a hands on approach to the Christmas season. We have folders of official gift lists accounting for hundreds of people.
"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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