NL #43, June 2003

This issue presents details regarding the upcoming Annual Meeting and Reunion to be held at Bellefield, Hyde Park, New York. Home of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and part of the FDR National Historic Site, Bellefield is the National Park Headquarters and is situated along the northern boundary of the Roosevelt property that includes the FDR Library and Museum and Springwood, the Roosevelt family home. Other news in this issue included:

• Cousin John H. Somers visits the home of Whaling Captain Obed Delano in Marion. John is Obed's great-grandson, and we learn much about Obed and his family through this article.
• A history of WELLFORDS WHARF on the Rappahannock River in Virginia is presented.
• A review of the book Before the Trumpet, the history of young Franklin Roosevelt from 1882 to 1905, by Geoffrey C. Ward.
• A story about Amanda Sepúlveda Délano, the Great-Granddaughter of Paul Hinkley Delano, who is 102 years old!
• A visit to the Portland Head Light that Brazillai Delano (GHAAHD pg.182) helped establish in 1790.
• Delano Beach (Washington) revisited, Captain George E. Delano and the wreck of the AUSTRIA.
• An article describing the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Trail, a hiking trail starting at FDR's summer home on Campobello Island in Canada and extending to Washington, D.C.
• A story by Robert F. Huber about how President Ulysses S. Grant's son Major General Frederick Dent Grant and his son, Major General Ulysses Simpson Grant III, used Delano ancestry to join the Mayflower Society.

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