24 June 2017
This morning I cooked bacon and eggs in the cabin. Usually, they provide some type of frying pan for the cabin – they certainly had pots – but no frying pan. However, they did have an electric pan. I can’t remember the last time I cooked on one of those. In any case, the eggs turned out great and the bacon OK. I think it was more the brand of bacon than the cooking of it.
By 10:30 am Tom and I were at the entrance to the Little White House. There were not many people but there was one group of young kids, remarkably well behaved. You first enter a museum that does an excellent job of exploring the life of FDR. They have an we’ll done video narrated by Walter Cronkite (it’ll be a little hard to update).
While we were in the museum, it began to sprinkle outside so I suggested we beat the group of kids to the actual Little White House since the house itself is so small, moving around in a large group is difficult. I know Tom was surprised at how small the house really is and how much simpler life was back in that time.
From the Little White House, we did the Avenue of the States where every state sent in their signature stone. Florida’s was “fossiliferous limestone.
Next, we headed to where the unfinished portrait of FDR is housed. Roosevelt was sitting in the living room while Elizabeth Shoumatoff was painting his portrait when he began rubbing his temple and complained of a headache. He then collapsed and after being taken to his bed, he died. Both the unfinished portrait is housed here as well as the finished one she did later from memory and photos.
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From the Little White House, we drove to the historic pools. Our admission at the Little White House allowed us entrance to the pool museum. The ranger suggested that the pools, which are drained because of structural problems, may one day be renovated for use again. In any case, you can feel the temperature of the water which is consistently near 88F.
Tom found out the water that would normally go to fill the pools is collected on site, treated and then used at the Institute on the hill above the pools, so it is not wasted.
At the historic pools, it again started pouring rain. In killing time talking to the ranger, we found out there was a winery just a little ways down the road. We detoured there, toured the Warm Springs Winery (about 30 square feet) and did a wine tasting. Their wine comes from their own muscadine vineyard plus a red wine from north Georgia which is mixed with some of the muscadine wines.
I bought a case, got a 15% discount, and loaded it into the jeep. I Ike to use it as gifts and I find if you chill muscadine wine, it works well on a hot summer afternoon on the patio. Summer is on it’s way so….
Lunch was at the Lightning Bug Cafe, a little hole in the wall section of the Firefly gift store. There seems to be a theme here. Lunch was excellent but the highlight for me (other than Tom paying for lunch) was their caramel cake with whipped cream. My great aunt used to make me a caramel cake every year for my birthday and the first taste was pure nostalgia. I finally got tired of caramel cakes as a kid and she then started making me German chocolate cakes for my birthdays. My great aunt Buleah was an outstanding cook, but she made the very best cakes I’ve ever eaten. Tie that slice of nostalgia with the Little White House primitive structural elements constructed of pine, ice box that worked with ice as a cooler, tube radio, etc. and you have my childhood.
Upon arriving at the cabin, I opened the back door to take the wine inside when the entire box of 12 fell on the ground on top of some rocks. Amazingly, only one bottle of the 12 broke. Can we say wine shock?
Tomorrow I travel to Silver Springs, FL.
