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Ice Yachting on the Hudson River
An Exposition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home, Library, and Museum
Hyde Park NY 12538

Sunday, December 21, 2014 -- Friday, January 2, 2015

Opening reception at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center
 Sunday, December 21, 2014 --  2 pm

Introductory remarks by:

Lynn Bassanese, Director of the FDR Library (National Archives)
Sarah Olson, Supt. of Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site (National Park Service)
Wint Aldrich, Historian

FDR's ice yacht "HAWK" will be on display in the Visitor Center Lobby
Historic ice yachts of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club fleet will also be on display in front of the FDR Library

HAWK sketch courtesy of Reid Bielenberg

"I enclose two copies of prints enlarged from a Kodak, showing me at the helm of the ice yacht HAWK. I suggest that you have
this framed and hung on the wall over the spars. It can be labeled 'FDR at helm of ice yacht HAWK off Roosevelt Point, 1905'."
Photo and quoted text courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York.

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