Blogs from Warm Springs, Georgia, United States, North America

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~Benjamin Disraeli WEB SITES click on the blue letters tp learn more Kennesaw Mountain Warm Springs TEXT January 7,2010, Thursday Red Top Mt. SP We took a short walk around the campground and again were lucky…no snow! We drove on toward Atlanta to Kennesaw National Battlefield Park. This battle was one of the last confederate successes of the Civil War. The Visitor’s Center had a new video describing the battle. They also house a very impressive collection of rifles/weapons spanning the years before, during and after the Civil War, a generous donation by the Fuller Family, a ... read more

“Whatever Happened to Polio” Roosevelt’s Warm Springs Georgia I had the pleasure of returning to Warm Springs Georgia as the guest of Warren Williams a member of Peachtree Rotary. Last fall I saw the public side of the complex, the museum, avenue of flags and the little white house. This time I got to see the educational and therapeutic side of Roosevelt’s Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. August 11th, 2007 marks the official opening of the “What ever happened to Polio?” exhibit at Roosevelt Warm springs. Thanks to PolioPlus and District 6900, fifty thousand dollars was donated to pay for moving the Smithsonian exhibit here. FDR and Warm Springs were the vanguard of a two pronged attack against the dead epidemic disease, Polio. The first focus was helping the polio patient adapt. It took remarkable ingenuity to ... read more