We leave today and take the scooters to the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site. It’s just over 3 miles from the marina so it will be an easy ride. On our way out, Doug spots this sign at the top of the ramp by the dock. Like the Mid-Hudson Bridge would indicate, we are almost equidistant between the Statue of Liberty and the entrance to the Erie Canal at Troy.
CJ made a new friend today, kind of looks like he might have gone to ECU. We actually thought he would be a little intimidated by the giant pirate, but noooo, I don’t think he cares. In fact, he looks like the pleasure is all the pirates, ha ha.
This is the Roosevelt home. This modest home was a place of rest for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. As his family grew, the home needed to grow also. The wings on the outer sides and a third floor were added in 1916 by Franklin and his mother Sara. More about Sara below, but she was an incredible woman.
This is the Roosevelt library, everything in the room, and throughout most of the house, is authentic. At the age of 39, FDR was diagnosed with polio that rendered his legs paralyzed. He used a wheelchair after his diagnosis. I was interested in the wheelchair in the picture because it doesn’t have arm rests. He designed it that way so he wouldn’t appear as ill as he was and to hide his disability. I don’t think he was ashamed of it, but he did know public sentiment. FDR was a really smart man.
This is a portrait of FDR’s mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt. She gave birth to her only child, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1882. Sara was a strong and well educated woman who, ahead of her time, home schooled her son and raised him at home; not boarding schools. I’m a person who tries to read people by looking at their eyes. From this picture, her eyes tell me that she was a force to be reckoned with.
He chose to be buried at one of his favorite places, his home at Hyde Park named Springwood. He is quoted as saying “All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River…”. His wish was to share and give his home to the American people. As such, it became part of the National Park Service and opened in 1946. His accomplishments are too many to list, but I believe he was an extraordinary man who loved the people of the United States and had a passion for America to succeed.
We get back to the boat and play some frisbee with CJ. He gets a little hot and then what do we do?
We let him take a short swim in the Hudson. How many dogs can say that they have been swimming in the Hudson River!
Ewww, time to shake off all that Hudson water, ha ha ha.
We have dinner on the boat and watch the sun go down. Another day to learn all sorts of things that, regrettably, I wasn’t interested in during school.
Here’s our “soft” itinerary for the next week or so: Hyde Park Marina 6/24 to 6/27; Donovan’s Shady Harbor 6/27 to 6/30; Albany Yacht Club 6/30 to 7/1; Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady 7/1 to 7/7. If anyone wants to visit, come on, we LOVE company.
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