The boats will be on display – with full rigging – in the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center, during regular operating hours. Free public event.
What would Bedford Falls be without George Bailey? His guardian angel Clarence is going to show him just how big a difference he’s made in this holiday classic starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed and directed by Frank Capra.
This event is free to attend but registration is required.
The story of the extraordinary women luthiers behind the exceptional – and exceptionally secret – Gibson Guitars of the World War II era.
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In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt donated a part of his family estate to the American people to become a permanent archive and museum of his records and collections. In doing so, he created the first Presidential Library.
President Roosevelt loved Christmas, and involved himself in both event planning and gift giving, painstakingly keeping a record of every gift by hand. Join FDR Library Director William Harris in FDR’s Hyde Park office for some holiday cheer.
The Roosevelts received an enormous volume of holiday mail, much of which remains in the archives. These cards came from the general public, but the cards from the soldiers, sailors, or flyers – some handmade, some drawn – can be moving or even quite humorous.
This ice yacht signal pennant belonged to Ellen Roosevelt, FDR’s first cousin. Like her father John Aspinwall Roosevelt, owner of the ice yacht ICICLE, Ellen regularly sailed these record-breaking vessels.
