Sep 28 2014
Heading South
This weekend, it looked like fall but felt like summer — beautiful flying weather for these geese.
We had a visit from the Meng/Kufferaths, including little Lucy, 15 months old. On Saturday we went apple picking.
On Sunday we headed south on Route 9G and visited Val Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt’s home in Hyde Park. On the tour we learned that FDR and Eleanor built a house there for two of Eleanor’s friends who oversaw a factory (pictured) which built reproduction Colonial furniture. After that business failed, Eleanor converted the factory into a house where she lived with her secretary, her doctor, and her bodyguard, all of whom seemed to be involved in possibly steamy, sometimes unrequited, relationships with Eleanor. I found the tour confusing, although the park ranger was endearingly fond of Eleanor, and a bit miffed at FDR because of his emotional distance.
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If you had a TV, you could have watched the PBS Ken Burns “The Roosevelts.” Extremely well done.