With war raging in Europe and his beloved wife Ellen dead, Woodrow Wilson was a lonely and unhappy man. But all of that changed one afternoon in 1915, when the doors of the White House elevator opened ...
As a woman who often travels solo, I love finding stories of women who broke the barriers of their time and scored big in fields once limited to men. I hit the jackpot in Wytheville, Virginia. At the ...
The First Lady – Edith Bolling Galt Wilson – was born in a second-story apartment in downtown Wytheville, Va., on Oct. 15, 1872. In 1915, she became the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She ...
A trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains introduces contributor Jackie Sheckler Finch to the historic town of Wytheville, Virginia. America’s first woman president? More than a century ago, that title was ...
WYTHEVILLE — Nestled in far Southwest Virginia is the birthplace of Edith Bolling Wilson, the second wife of America's 28th president and Staunton native, Woodrow Wilson. Restoring the birthplace to ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Farron Smith is a Co-Founder for the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2013 Call-In. Mr. Cooper and ...
Wytheville’s Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation and Museum has been placed on the list of Preservation Virginia’s Endangered Historic Sites for 2013. By designating endangered sites, ...