Val-Kill, Eleanore Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park
Stone Cottage, at Val-Kill A couple of weeks ago, we started our visit to The Franklin D. Roosevelt Home and Presidential Library. You might have noticed that, while I wrote a lot about Franklin, and his mother Sara Roosevelt, one person was mostly absent from that visit, the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt . Well, family relationships can be complicated. National Archives and Records Administration [Public domain] via wikicommons Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the few first ladies who is as famous and respected as her husband. Born in 1884, Eleanor suffered many personal family losses. Her mother, father and one brother all died before her 10 th birthday. When she was 15, Eleanor was sent her to a finishing school in England, and her time there seemed to bring out the best in her. When she returned to New York, she worked with poor youths, teaching dancing and calisthenics. Val-Kill Eleanor married Franklin, her 5 th cousin, in 1905, over the objections ...