FDR Suite

• January Updates

  Happy New Year, Everyone. I have three quick January updates. First of all, come see a real master at work – craftsman Paul Riedl, who’s restoring the FDR desk. The…

• Restoring FDR’s Harvard, One Pixel at a Time

  A number of our readers have been curious as to how we’ve found all the framed art that hangs on our walls. Well, let me tell you –  it’s been…

• EBay, FDR and the Fall River Line

  I have another circular tale for your consideration: During our recent open house over the Harvard-Yale weekend, many of you wanted to know how we found period items for the…

• Salmagundi

  The Victorians loved words with strange and exotic origins, and here’s one of my favorites: SALMAGUNDI (slm-gnd n. pl. sal·ma·gun·dis) 1. A salad of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, and onions,…

• How Harvard Invented Modern Football: Part 2

  Part II of the excerpt by Morton (Henry) Prince, Class of 1875: The Harvard season of 1874, which began in the spring, was destined to be historic for American football…

• Why We Fight

  In 1942, in the first full, dark year of the War, famous Hollywood director Frank Capra had a problem. Commissioned by the Government to make a series of films to…