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Warm Springs, Warm Day (sort of)

3/3/2015

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By the time we were done with our cereal, the decision was made. We would trek from Atlanta to West Point Lake on the Alabama-Georgia border. R. Shaefer Heard is our sixth Corps of Engineers campground in a row and another winner. Almost all of the sites are right on the lake so we got a goody. The host was very helpful about sites and site-seeing.

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After consideration, it didn't seem the best time of year for a visit to Callaway gardens so we opted for FDR's Little White House at Warm Springs. This is a fascinating place and well worth the time. The focus of the museum is on the impact that FDR's visits had on this part of Georgia and the treatment of polio. A collection of hand carved canes sent as gifts from all over the world emphasized how the extent of his disability was not widely known. It was also while he was here that he became aware of how the lack of electricity affected the farmers and developed the idea of rural electrification.

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The cottage is just that--a small but comfortable three bedroom house designed by FDR himself. Paneled in Georgia pine with furnishings built by workmen in the Val Kill workshop started by Eleanor to help the unemployed, it is a definite contrast to the White House and Hyde Park. The bedrooms are small and the dining and sitting area are combined with a great view of a ravine and the mountains beyond. There is a wheel chair FDR had built from a kitchen chair in the local brace shop. It is easy to see why this was a favorite retreat from the world at that time.

Today we will continue on to a campground between Montgomery and Selma, AL. Today and tomorrow are supposed to be in the 70s, with a drop on Thursday to 45. There must be another front coming through.

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3/3/2015 09:05:11 am

Looks like a great choice of campground & activity. Hope it warms up for the rest of the trip. Be safe out there! Love,g

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