Author Q&A: Kaye Lanning Minchew

In May the University of Georgia Press published A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia by Kaye Lanning Minchew, former executive director of the Troup County Historical Society and Archives. Below acquisitions editor Patrick Allen talks to Kaye about her book and how the presence of FDR in Warm Springs changed the…

FDR’s Last Trip to Warm Springs

by Kaye Lanning Minchew On March 30, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt returned for the 41st time to his Little White House in Warm Springs. He came with friends, family and his dog Fala. He was exhausted when he arrived but staff thought Warm Springs would work its magic and revive the President. Over the…