Showing posts with label Rachel Elliot. Show all posts
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Friday, February 13, 2009

FRIDAY FRIENDS: FDR, Bob Prater, and Me

I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again. One of the best parts of being an author is the people I meet along the way.
For example Franklin Delano Roosevelt! After we met at Warm Springs, Georgia, FDR sent me this picture. It’s a little out of season to be sure but that’s not his fault. He sent it before Christmas. I just failed to post it then.

His name is Bob Prater, actually. I met him on Labor Day at the historic pools at Roosevelt Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, GA. We became instant friends – maybe because we both love history. And we have a fondness for Warm Springs.
Bob Prater (aka FDR), Me, Marion Dunn (former push boy and bracemaker at Warm Springs)

Bob does historical interpretations of FDR. I haven’t been so lucky as to experience one yet. But I will. It is just a matter of time. I'm always looking for an opportunity to visit Warm Springs and I intend to get there sometime when he is in character.
FDR and Eleanor at the Little White House in Warm Springs. Eleanor interpreter is Rachel Elliot