Eleanor Roosevelt: eulogy at a memorial
The Progressive, April 2009
January 1963
"She lived 78 years, most of the time in tireless activity as if she knew that only a frail fragment of the things that cry out to be done could be done in the lifetime of even the most fortunate. Yet how much she had done how much still unchronicled! We dare not to try to tabulate the lives she salvaged, the battles--known and unrecorded--she fought, the afflicted she comforted, the hovels she brightened, the faces and places, near and far, that were given some new radiance, some sound of music, by her endeavors."
Stevennson, Adlai
COPYRIGHT 2009 The Progressive, Inc.
January 1963
"She lived 78 years, most of the time in tireless activity as if she knew that only a frail fragment of the things that cry out to be done could be done in the lifetime of even the most fortunate. Yet how much she had done how much still unchronicled! We dare not to try to tabulate the lives she salvaged, the battles--known and unrecorded--she fought, the afflicted she comforted, the hovels she brightened, the faces and places, near and far, that were given some new radiance, some sound of music, by her endeavors."
Stevennson, Adlai
COPYRIGHT 2009 The Progressive, Inc.
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic site
The Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, also known as Val-Kill consists of 180 acres. It is located approximately two miles east of Springwood, the Hyde Park Roosevelt family home. Eleanor developed this property as a place where she could develop some of her ideas for work with winter jobs for rural workers and women. It was the only residence that she personally owned. Eleanor is the only first lady to have her own National Historic site. When she died in 1962 her relatives offered the site to the government but they declined it because they only honor presidents. But in 1984 Jimmy Carter signed a proclamation that allowed them to honor her.