New Deal Pointless Prize

[historygeek]

Wow!
I cannot tell you all how much I enjoyed seeing all of your pictures and reading the descriptions of all of the New Deal sites. I wasn’t sure if anyone else would jump on my geeky train, and I really loved seeing all of the fascinating sites you all came up with. I didn’t post as much as I’d planned to originally since many of the sites I would have posted about were getting covered and I didn’t want to steal anyone’s thunder.
Okay, I just got totally distracted by the Living New Deal map and thinking about trips to the arboretum that involve stops at ND sites.
On to the prizes.
While I had intended to give New Deal themed prizes for this, the FDR Library’s shop is still closed, and I hate to just order things from Amazon if I can avoid it. So all prizes will be in the form of gift certificates to your favorite restaurants or museums.
Jo M blew it away with the sheer number of photos. and her descriptions were consistently fabulous. This, she won the prizes for most pics and the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Prize for best historical description. I will spare you the slightly creepy Eleanor Roosevelt doll I thought about sending as a reward for the latter, and just award you $70 in gift certificates (split however you would like) to the local business or museum of your choice.
Consularrider took my favorite photo– the pic of the Triborough Bridge. You will also receive a $30 gift certificate to the local business or museum of your choice (I looked online to see if the Tenement Museum has gift certificates, but they don’t seem to. I’d be happy to send $ for any of their walking tours, though, since you seem to be NY-based. But seriously– local coffee shop or restaurant is also a totally valid option– I jost love the Tenement Museum). Boomer2U’s pentagon photo and JoM’s pic of the Greenbelt Community Center were also excellent.
And to any participant in the DC area– if you’d like to come along the next time I lead a tour of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Washington, let me know. I expect to do this at least once this summer (and it will be a small group rather than a big scheduled tour, since it’s for my interns and not for Atlas Obscura). When such things are possible, I also regularly take my students to see the New Deal murals inside the Department of the Interior, and would be happy to invite a guest or two along for that (that is led by Dept. of Interior museum staff).
Thank you all, again, for your pics and thoughts on these historic sites. It makes me so happy to see so much history!
Christy (Historygeek)

[JoM]

Thanks for the incentives, I learned a lot about FDR and the New Deal. And thought about some of the parallels to current events. Thanks for the gift certificates! Will let you know! It was fun seeing sites from NY and when we start to travel again, I will definitely keep looking for ND sites and learning more about the history. There are still tons out in our area, so on days when I need a destination, I might just pick a point on the map! Also, keep me posted on the ER and DOI tours!

[Steve O]

@historygeek 210222 wrote:

And to any participant in the DC area– if you’d like to come along the next time I lead a tour of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Washington, let me know. I expect to do this at least once this summer (and it will be a small group rather than a big scheduled tour, since it’s for my interns and not for Atlas Obscura). When such things are possible,

Hi,
Post information about your ride here on the forum (Events thread) in advance and you will get lots of interest.
All sorts of rides have achieved success that way: Bicycle Fun Club, Midnight Saddles, history rides, dumpling rides, baseball game rides, National Cathedral tours, etc.

Here are some photos from a fun ride to the lotuses from pre-pandemic times:
@komorebi 191990 wrote:

[historygeek]

Yeah, I wouldn’t want a big group, and it’s a walking tour (not biking).

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