Super Museum Sunday at Little White House Feb. 8

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EXHIBITS FOR SUPER MUSEUM SUNDAY – The iron lung respirator became available in the early 1930s and saved many lives during the polio years in the United States. An operating model will be on display on February 8th in Blanchard Hall on the campus of Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Campus in Warm Springs. The exhibit will be open from noon to 4 pm that day for Super Museum Sunday.

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Meriwether County has amazing history, and that history will be on display free of charge during Super Museum Sunday in Warm Springs.
Super Museum Sunday is an annual event sponsored by the Georgia Historical Society. Museums all over the state participate by offering hours of free admission one day each year in conjunction with the Georgia History Festival.
The Little White House Historic Site will offer free admission all day on Sunday, February 8, from 9 am to 4:45 pm. A special program entitled “Films from the Archives” will also be available several times during the day showcasing old site films and the current site film with history about each production.
A special historical exhibit at Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Campus will also be open in Blanchard Hall from noon to 4 pm. Roosevelt Warm Springs is the organization founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1927 to serve people with disabilities.
At first, the people with disabilities were polio patients seeking to recover from the muscle-destroying disease. Today, the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA) offers specialized vocational training at Warm Springs to young people with disabilities seeking employment.
GVRA shares the National Historic Landmark campus with Wellstar Health System that operates an inpatient rehabilitation hospital and a long-term acute care hospital in totally renovated buildings that first served polio patients in the 1940s and 1950s.
The exhibit in Blanchard Hall includes an operating iron lung and an operating rocking bed as well as other memorabilia from the nearly 100-year history of Roosevelt Warm Springs. The entrance to Roosevelt Warm Springs is located at 6135 Roosevelt Highway. Follow the signs to the exhibit. The Little White House Historic site is located at 401 Little White House Road.
FDR transformed Warm Springs from a regional vacation spot built around the natural warm springs to an internationally known center for polio rehabilitation. He made Warm Springs his second home, and Super Museum Sunday gives everyone in the area an opportunity to tour the Little White House, to visit the museum, to remember his leadership during the Great Depression and World War II and to learn about how a nation came together to find a cure for a dreaded disease.