Tickets Are Available for Eleanor Roosevelt’s 140th Birthday Celebration
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Tickets are available now for “Letters from Eleanor: A 140th Birthday Celebration of Eleanor Roosevelt,” which will take place from noon to 2 p.m. ET on Oct. 27 at The Henry A. Wallace Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.
The event, presented by the Eleanor Roosevelt Center, will feature a sit-down lunch followed by a conversation among guest speakers William Harris, director of the FDR Library and Museum; Mary Jo Binker, associate editor, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, The George Washington University; Ellie Lund Zartman, niece of Malvina “Tommy” Thompson and goddaughter of Eleanor Roosevelt; and Anna Eleanor Fierst, Eleanor Roosevelt Board Chair and great-granddaughter of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Attendees will have an opportunity to view original letters from Mrs. Roosevelt, including heartfelt corresp…
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