Birthplace Foundation
The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation owns and manages Edith Wilson's family home in Wytheville. The foundation works to educate the public about Wilson's upbringing, her actions as First Lady, and the example she set for women.
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Famous quotes containing the words birthplace and/or foundation:
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,—its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)