The Little White House newsletter, 2021 Winter

The Little White House NEWSLETTER

Roosevelt's Little White House - 706-655-5870 - 401 Little White House Rd. - Warm Springs, Ga. 31830

Interesting times at the Little White House

Winter Quarter 2021

We may be in the middle of a pandemic, but we are moving forward with plans of improving our

guests experiences and business has been booming.

Roosevelt's love of stamp collecting is well documented. On the day before his death, his design for the "Toward United Nations" stamp had been approved. There is one difference however. The final stamp that was released bears his name. As he was alive when the stamp was approved, the quote could not be attributed to him but since had had passed away, the US Postmaster ordered a change to the stamp by adding his name to the quote.

President Roosevelt had planned on picking up a First Day Issue of the stamp in San Francisco at the first UN Conference.

Over the next few months and years, Franklin D. Roosevelt would be honored on eleven more US postage stamps and countless stamps from countries around the world.

The first stamp to bear his

image was the one cent stamp

featuring Hyde Park in a series

of stamps that began 1945

shortly after his death. The

two-cent stamp was issued at

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the Little White House on

August 25, 1945.

New permanent exhibit on African Americans
Daisy Bonner, Lizzie McDuffie, Booker T Washington and others are included in this new display in the Memorial Museum. Their stories have been overlooked for decades. Now, guests can learn the importance of these people in FDR's life. History comes alive in Warm Springs and we hope you will make plans to visit soon.
AT&T Pioneers Southside Council
Over the years, volunteers of the AT&T Pioneers Southside Council in Atlanta have been on a mission, to provide their time assisting staff with beautification projects at Roosevelt's Little White House. The group has been meeting annually at the Little White House for nearly two decades creating bird habitats, planting trees and spreading plenty of pine straw. This year is a little different with the pandemic in full swing, but not enough to deter the Pioneers from awarding a grant of $3000.00 to the Historic Site. Funds from this grant have been used to purchase new plants for landscaping around the Servants' Quarters and Guest House, PPE equipment for the staff, a new display in the Lobby as well as new interpretive panels at the Servants' Quarters.
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Something BIG is heading our way!
Millions of people have come to the Little White House to see the famous Unfinished Portrait on display. They know that FDR suffered a stroke as it was being painted and never completed. But what is the backstory of this painting. How did it come to be? What pose was chosen? What background? We have a big surprise that has been donated to the Historic Site from David Frohman. This will add detail to the story that has not been told, or seen, since that fateful day in 1945 when FDR was last here.
Coming April 2021!
In honor of Black History Month, The Little White House will host: The Segregated Skies of WWII. "The Tuskegee Airmen" - These panels explore the history and heroism of the first African American pilots to fly in combat during World War II. This is one of the special traveling exhibits from Kennesaw State University
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