WILSON HOUSE UPDATES We
are grateful to both the Spade and Trowel Garden Club and the Camellia Garden Club for continuing to maintain our two garden plots in the back and side yards of the Wilson House. These ladies (with some male assistance on occasion), dutifully come on a seasonal basis to keep the period plantings thriving. Spade and Trowel Garden Club members who assisted with holiday decorations
Camellia Garden Club
You may have heard about an ongoing controversy regarding President
Wilson's positions and policies regarding race during his two terms in the White House. This largely came to the national spotlight with respect to how Princeton University honors him a century after he served as its President, before he was New Jersey Governor and U.S. President. Historic Augusta has drawn up a statement regarding our position with respect to President Wilson's attitudes, and how we interpret those aspects of his world view. You can read the position statement by visiting our website at www.wilsonboyhoodhome.org/learn/about-woodrow-wilson/woodrowwilson-a-progressive-man-of-his-era. Or, Google "Woodrow Wilson: A Progressive Man of his Era." EM
If you have not already discovered them,
you will enjoy a series of video's known as
"Kirby's Augusta," found on the Augusta Chronicle's augusta.com
website and
at
on
www.chronicle.
YouTube.
These
are written and narrated by Bill Kirby, Online News Director of the Chronicle, and
produced by Mark Albertin. In observance of President Wilson's 160th birthday on
December 28th, an episode was published on YouTube. Go to www.youtube.com/ watch?v=HhEYlO2kNTE.
Or,
"Kirby's Augusta - Woodrow Wilson."
6 | Spring 2016
Historic Augusta News