Hey!
Sorry that I haven't been posting lately! My life is wrapping up a chapter and trying to go to the next! It makes life chaotic!
Today I'm writing about a home in Mid Georgia where one of our President's spent his summers. This is Warm Spring's Little White House.
The Little White House was built in 1932 for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He choose the town to built his summer home for it's "warm spring" that naturally flowed that were warm to help ease the President's polio. The President at this time had been suffering from polio for over ten years at this point. Polio was very common in this era and was contracted by being in the same proximity as someone else with polio, such as water.
Roosevelt went to the pools were the springs ran to help ease the pain and go through therapy with many other polio suffers. During his time in Georgia he would stay in his summer home where he had privacy and peace. He died in Warm Springs in April of '45. After which the family packed up their belongs and left everything as it was. It hasn't changed since.
To this day, the house is the exact same, with a museum and carriage house that is full of history! Including an unfinished portrait of him that was being painted before he died. Every year on the day he died, April 12, the museum holds a ceremony in his honor, giving a 48 star flag to the person they feel is most like FDR as well as flying a new 48 star flag at half mast until the next year.
The honor and respect that is shown in that place makes the world of history so much more of a living thing than a thing of the past. They keep Franklin Delano Roosevelt alive in this place in a small town where he enjoyed his summers for over ten years. As he once said, "I do not need to tell you that I am happy to be in Georgia. Nor do I need to tell you that I am proud of Georgia."
MJ
