Presidential Pathways

This last weekend we took the kids up to Warm Springs to visit The Little White House. What is that? Well, I'll tell you! ( I had no idea what it was, but it actually is an interesting part of American history.) President Franklin Roosevelt owned a summer vacation home in Warm Springs, Georgia, which they called the "little" White House. I'm sure you get the pun. He chose Warm Springs because, you guessed it, they have "warm springs" there that were therapeutic and helpful in treating his symptoms from polio. He really enjoyed his time here and would come here all through his presidency. On April 12, 1945, he was sitting for a portrait (at the Little White House )when he collapsed after suffering a stroke. They rushed him to his bedroom and called the doctors, but he died later that day. The house is beautifully preserved and they have constructed a really nice museum there.

On the porch of the Little White House

At the entrance to the Little White House

Family on the front porch

Don't we look gorgeous? This was at the Warm Springs pool, next door to the Rehabilitative Center that FDR founded. Every Labor Day weekend they fill the pool with spring water (88 degrees) and you can swim in it.

Trail leading up to FDR's neighbor's house. It is lined with all the state flags. Admiring the view from a hilltop in nearby FDR State Park