Dallas Historical Society presents From Hyde Park to Fair Park: A Conversation With the Roosevelt Grandchildren and Their Remembrances of Grandmère and Pa

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Photo courtesy of Laura Roosevelt

From Hyde Park to Fair Park is a remembrance discussion that will be moderated by Paul Sparrow, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Participants in the intimate discussion of their personal memories of their grandmother and grandfather, Eleanor and Franklin, include Anna “Anne” Roosevelt, daughter of James “Jimmy” Roosevelt, first son of ER and FDR; Elliott “Tony” Roosevelt Jr., son of Elliott Roosevelt, second son of ER and FDR; Franklin “Frank” Roosevelt III, son of Franklin Jr., third son of ER and FDR; and Nina Roosevelt Gibson, daughter of John, the youngest child of ER and FDR.

The event will feature "Historic American Pop," a collaborated historical perspective of abstract art with the words of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt by Laura Roosevelt, great- granddaughter of Eleanor and Franklin.

From Hyde Park to Fair Park is a remembrance discussion that will be moderated by Paul Sparrow, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Participants in the intimate discussion of their personal memories of their grandmother and grandfather, Eleanor and Franklin, include Anna “Anne” Roosevelt, daughter of James “Jimmy” Roosevelt, first son of ER and FDR; Elliott “Tony” Roosevelt Jr., son of Elliott Roosevelt, second son of ER and FDR; Franklin “Frank” Roosevelt III, son of Franklin Jr., third son of ER and FDR; and Nina Roosevelt Gibson, daughter of John, the youngest child of ER and FDR.

The event will feature "Historic American Pop," a collaborated historical perspective of abstract art with the words of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt by Laura Roosevelt, great- granddaughter of Eleanor and Franklin.

From Hyde Park to Fair Park is a remembrance discussion that will be moderated by Paul Sparrow, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Participants in the intimate discussion of their personal memories of their grandmother and grandfather, Eleanor and Franklin, include Anna “Anne” Roosevelt, daughter of James “Jimmy” Roosevelt, first son of ER and FDR; Elliott “Tony” Roosevelt Jr., son of Elliott Roosevelt, second son of ER and FDR; Franklin “Frank” Roosevelt III, son of Franklin Jr., third son of ER and FDR; and Nina Roosevelt Gibson, daughter of John, the youngest child of ER and FDR.

The event will feature "Historic American Pop," a collaborated historical perspective of abstract art with the words of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt by Laura Roosevelt, great- granddaughter of Eleanor and Franklin.

WHEN

WHERE

Hall of State at Fair Park
3939 Grand Ave.
Dallas, TX 75210
https://www.dallashistory.org/programs/special-events/

TICKET INFO

$100-$155
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