Warm Springs News

Literacy volunteers go 'Riding for Reading' The local chapter of Literacy Volunteers for America will host its second "Riding for Reading" event, a motorcycle ride to benefit the agency, on Saturday.

The leadership team at Duracell P&G says no one exemplifies the spirit of volunteering more than Russ Erenheim.

During the 1940s, a huge number of women filled factory jobs left vacant by men who were fighting during World War II.'Rosie the Riveter,' as these women were collectively called, will come alive noon-3 p.m. June 6 during the annual D-Day Observance at Roosevelt's Little White House State Historic Site, 401 Little White House Road, in Warm Springs, ...

Today's column came from Warm Springs, Ga. , site of Franklin D Roosevelt's Little White House and the place he died on April 12, 1945.

April 13, 1945 - President Franklin Roosevelt is dead at the age of 63 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., the previous day.

Quiet like some still day, Jesus calls me home. 'Going Home' A. Dvorak Musician Graham Jackson, a friend and favorite entertainer of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, tearfully played that slow, soulful song on the accordion one last time on April 12, 1945, as FDR's funeral procession left Warm Springs, Ga., on his last trip back to Washington.

We had entered the new spring season about three weeks earlier. Some farmers were just getting started in the fields when radio stations informed America that President Roosevelt had died at the Little White House in Georgia.

Not pictured: all the drool. C'mon liberals. Let's give Phil Valentine a break. He spends upwards of 10 to 15 minutes every Friday afternoon texting his column 160 characters at a time to a harried Tennessean editor.

Provided by the Division of State Parks and Historic Sites The bird feeders at Crooked River State Park in St.

The Civilian Conservation Corps was launched in 1933 as part of the Emergency Conservation Act.

By Jennifer Shrader Staff writer At 86, Lillian Champion is a veteran author. Many of her columns and stories appeared in papers from Atlanta to Columbus more than 40 years ago.

The Georgia State Patrol reports David Dwight Walton of Warm Springs, Ga. was killed Friday morning in a single-vehicle crash in Talbot County.

Crenshaw County residents Pastor James Phillips and his wife Barbara, along with guests, Russell and Sheri Miniard, went to Warm Springs, Georgia, and toured The Little White House on February 7th.

In this newsreel clip from January 26, 1933, newly elected US President Franklin D. Roosevelt vacationing at his Little White House in Warm Springs, GA requests a local string band to play his favorite fiddle ...

Submitted by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources SOCIAL CIRCLE - Location, location, location.

Submitted by WDEF on September 18, 2008 - 6:02pm. Catoosa County News Dade County News Murray County News Walker County News Whitfield County News The state of Georgia is moving ahead with its gas gouging ...

A man is dead after a Saturday night wreck on Manchester Expressway. Roman Garcia Facia, 25, died of blunt force injuries from an accident just east of Warm Springs Road, Columbus police and Deputy Coroner ...

Now historic preservationists and tourism officials are hoping for increased tourism in places associated with the New Deal, like the town of Arthurdale, W.Va., which was built in the 1930s as a planned ...

Submitted by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources CALHOUN - The once eliminated, prehistoric-looking lake sturgeon is making a return to Georgia's waters.