November 2006 | Back to News
Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt's place in Hyde Park, New York, recently reopened to the public after months of renovations with a new focus on her enduring legacy. JCC&A and the National Park Service organized a two-day charette to ensure that future master planning and exhibition development work in confluence to meet interpretive goals. Together park representatives, planners, and partners including Save America's Treasures shaped plans for a visitor experience that engages the entire national historic site, including the landscape Mrs. Roosevelt cherished, to interpret her inspirational life and career.
Read more about JCC&A's work at Val-Kill and other Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites.
At all times, the story should emphasize Eleanor Roosevelt's emergence as a woman of courage, vision, and compassion, the challenges she faced, the risks she took to do the work she did, and the impact she had at home and around the world. If visitors cannot find these points to identify with, they may not be inspired by her legacy.
- Allida Black, director and editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
