Eleanor Roosevelt

Miss Hannah has a Wax Museum Project coming up. For the past month she has researched and written a paper about the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Today she presented an oral report. And on Monday they are statues in a wax museum for the students and parents to attend.

She put together this classic outfit. The fedora hat was recycled from the Milton Hershey project… only girlified a bit. She does look darling! Last night she practiced her oral report for the family. We learned that Eleanor was called ‘granny’ by her mother because she was such a plain and old-fashioned child. Both of her parents died before she was 10 years old. She married her fifth-cousin-once-removed… and didn’t have to change her last name. They had 6 children, one of whom died when he was seven months old, Franklin Jr. She also named her second-to-last-child Franklin Jr. She died of tuberculosis and was buried in New York City next to her husband.

This is the quote Hannah shared when talking about having to bury her baby, who was “the most beautiful of all the children.”