Gone Golf'in or Gone Photograph'in: historical site

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Mark Twain's Home

Mark Twain's Home

Hartford, Connecticut

The Mark Twain House and Museum was the home of Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) from 1874 to 1891 in Hartford, Connecticut. Before 1874, Twain had lived in Hannibal, Missouri. The architectural style of the 19-room house is Victorian Gothic. The house is also notable for the major works written during his residency, including The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp Abroad, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Unfortunately for visitors photography is not permitted inside the house. Consequently the only photos I was able to take were outside the home. Visitors should also note that the home next door is the historic Harriet Beecher Stowe House. A separate admission is charged the Stowe House.

Mark Twain House

Mark Twain Museum

Paige Compositer Type Setting Machine in the Mark Twain Museum

Mark Twain House

Mark Twain's Carriage House

Mark Twain House

Coming up soon on my blog will be:

New Hampshire Scorecards (Pheasant Ridge CC to Pine Valley GL)
Skungamaug River GC
New Hampshire Scorecards (Plausawa Valley CC to Province Lake CC)
Wethersfield CC

So come back soon and often

Friday, January 8, 2010

The Little White House

The Little White House

Warm Springs, Georgia

The Little White House was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's house away from the "Official" White House in Washington, D.C.

Much more information can be found at their website at www.frd-littlewhitehouse.org. What follows came from the website.

The Little White House

Franklin Delano Roosevelt built the Little White House in 1932 while governor of New York, prior to being inaugurated as president in 1933. He first came to Warm Springs in 1924 hoping to find a cure for the infantile paralysis (polio) that had struck him in 1921. Swimming in the 88-degree, buoyant spring waters brought him no miracle cure, but it did bring improvement. During FDR’s presidency and the Great Depression, he developed many New Deal Programs (such as the Rural Electrification Administration) based upon his experiences in this small town.

The FDR Museum at The Little White House

While posing for a portrait on April 12, 1945, FDR suffered a stroke and died a short while later. Today, the “Unfinished Portrait” is featured in a museum that showcases many exhibits, including FDR’s 1938 Ford convertible with hand controls, his Fireside Chats playing over a 1930s radio, his stagecoach and a theater. Visitors can tour FDR’s home, which has been carefully preserved very much as he left it, the servants and guest quarters, and the nearby pools complex that first brought the future president to Warm Springs.