A: My friend Pat Bond did a play on Lorena a long time ago. Pat was a well-known lesbian monologist. When she died, I found her script in the library. It was just about Hick and Eleanor's ...

FDR’s acceptance of his wife’s close relationship with Hickok may have stemmed from his own extra-martial play. Early on in her marriage to FDR, in 1918, Eleanor found a packet of love letters ...

Lorena Hickok, a former Associated Press political reporter and onetime lover and lifelong friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, in a 1941 portrait. AP Photo. I was ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, labeled the “First Lady of the World,” by the Post-Bulletin, arrived in town at 1 p.m. Oct. 22, attended a luncheon, met with the same students Dr. Chuck had addressed, and ...

The woman in the baggy linen suit has some stories she tells and others no one will ever hear. At some point she destroyed what might have been evidence, and let historical mystery linger like the … ...

Gellhorn and her mother became close friends of Eleanor Roosevelt, and Gellhorn was often a guest at the White House. Gellhorn and Roosevelt remained in contact until the latter's death in 1962.

At her Bethune-Cookman College orientation in 1996, Camesha Whittaker toured the Mary McLeod Bethune house and the tour guide planted a seed. "You know, Mrs. Bethune was friends with Mrs. Roosevelt." ...

In one letter quoted in the book, dated March 5, 1933, the day after her husband’s first inauguration, Roosevelt writes: “Hick my dearest, I cannot go to bed to-night without a word to you.

Admission: Free Information: Registration is required. Call 845-486-7745 to register. The Roosevelts. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Born: Jan. 30, 1882. Died ...

MADDIE & ELEANOR, the 2022 Laurie Award Winner from The Growing Stage's New Play-Reading Festival, introduces audiences to Maddie Leonard, who returns home after her first day in fourth grade, fed ...

In the new biography “Hick,” author Sarah Miller explores the deeply intimate relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and trailblazing journalist Lorena Hickok.