FDR Library and Museum Hosts Children's Reading Festival, Holiday Open House

The FDR Presidential Library and Museum hosts a full day of free holiday events on Dec. 9! Enjoy holiday decorations, refreshments and special activities — including live music and free photo ops with Santa — beginning at 12 p.m. in the Wallace Center.

The annual Children's Reading Festival is also scheduled for Dec. 9 from 1:30 – 4 p.m. in the Wallace Center. Children's book authors will read from and sign copies of their books. Featured books will be available for purchase in the New Deal Store in the Wallace Center. Participating authors include Barbara Ann Mojica, author of "Little Miss History Travels to Hyde Park, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum," and Barbara Guerriero-Flites, author of "The Memoir of a White House Dog: My Life with President Franklin Roosevelt: 1940-1945."

Children can also make holiday cards for sailors on the USS Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon in the Wallace Center lobby.

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