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The silent film greets visitors to Stone Cottage, part of the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site at Val-Kill in Hyde Park. A new exhibit starts there today, Sunday, and will be open seven ...
In 2015, a company in Atlanta, Georgia acquired the Val-Kill Industries trademark and now produces furniture with the original concepts developed by Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park.
Val-Kill cottage, the country home of the Roosevelts in New York’s Hudson Valley. by Susan P. Curnan When I think of Nikita Khrushchev’s August 1959 arrival at Val-Kill, the country home of the ...
Gibson’s chores included filling wheelbarrows with crushed stone from a gravel pit to fill in potholes on the long dirt road that led to Val-Kill Cottage.
The opportunity would be a good fit for people who are interested in learnng about Val-Kill and working with visitors. Volunteers would help staff the new exhibits in Stone Cottage.
Esposito, who in January was named executive director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, was welcomed at a reception earlier this month at Stone Cottage, which President Franklin D ...
When Nina Roosevelt was just seven years old, her family moved from California to live with her grandmother at the small cottage, Val-Kill, in Hyde Park, New York. It was at Val-Kill Farm that ...
Most of the furniture in the sitting room was made in the cottage industry Eleanor started with her friends at Val-Kill during the Depression to keep the unemployed youth of the area at home.
HYDE PARK, N.Y. — Eleanor Roosevelt’s beloved Val-Kill cottage is crammed full with evidence of her busy life: family photos on the wall, homey chairs for the many guests who came throu… ...