[Magdalen] Shock in Situ.

Lynn Ronkainen houstonklr at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 15:04:30 UTC 2015


It is worth visiting. Especially to those to whom FDR was larger than life. I visited with my family the year my son graduated from basic training at Ft Benning. We also visited  
Andersonville which has become a Federal Park

Lynn

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On Jun 8, 2015, at 1:25 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

I'll have to try to get down there to see that sometime. That is a major,
major part of the Roosevelt history. That is where he went to rest, and
that is where he went to die.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/7/2015 6:21:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:
> 
> No one  lives in the house -- but it's definitely a museum piece  >>>>
> 
> I took the time once at the end of a medical meeting in Atlanta, to  rent
> a car and drive down to FDR's Summerhouse at Warm Springs, GA.  This  is
> the little house where he and Eleanor stayed on his numerous trips  there.
> 
> Nothing has been touched.  All the kitchen appliances, chairs, etc.,  could
> have come out of my boyhood home around the same time (early 1940's).
> It was a real flashback.
> 
> When we got to the garage, and that convertible with all the pedals
> FDR used to make it seem as though he drove normally, was there.
> 
> I spontaneously burst into tears.
> 
> 
> David Strang.
> 
> 
> 


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