FDR statue unveiled at Warm Springs

[struggle4progress]

Source: Macon Telegraph

Posted on Thu, Apr. 12, 2007

By Chuck Thompson - [e-mail]

About 100 Department of Natural Resources officials, board members and guests attended an unveiling this morning of a new life-sized bronze sculpture of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Dowdell's Knob in the state park named for the late president.

The ceremony was timed to coincide with the 62nd annual commemoration of FDR's death at the nearby Little White House.

The statue, suggested by Yatesville native and FDR enthusiast Dan White, depicts the polio-stricken president wearing leg braces and sitting on the removed bench seat of his car that he drove around the area in when visiting nearby Warm Springs. It was sculpted by Atlanta's Martin Dawe, who studied photos of Roosevelt picnicking at the overlook and copies of old newsreels before beginning work. ~snip~

Roosevelt visited the area 41 times after contracting polio to swim in the therapeutic mineral water and rest. He formulated many of his New Deal policies after talking to the poor rural Georgians living in the area. ~snip~

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. What a coincidence.

I was looking at pictures of the FDR funeral train mere minutes ago.

Rip Payne's pictures from the 1940s

Stopped at dawn in Charlottesville, Virginia:



And the classic:



Graham Jackson, by Life magazine's Ed Clark. The caption is wrong. The month is April, not August.

[CBHagman]

2. That picture is one of the great images of the 20th century.

By the way, has anyone got an image of the statue of FDR?

[cosmicdot]

4. is this it?

http://www.gastateparks.org/net/content/go.aspx?s=113967.0.1.5&mode=e


while I'm at it ... the Little White House in Warm Springs



http://www.gastateparks.org/info/littlewhite/

[cosmicdot]

3. knr

anything to reflect on the 'New Deal' Democratic Party

I visted Warm Springs and the Little White House. Everything was monogrammed 'FDR'.

... we could use another FDR now ...