Before Theodore Roosevelt Island was transformed into a tribute to the nation's "conservation president," a prominent Virginia family relied on enslaved laborers to build and tend to its summer home there
Based in Arlington, Virginia, Sue Eisenfeld writes about history, nature, travel, adventure and culture. She is the author of two books, Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal and Wandering Dixie: Dispatches From the Lost Jewish South.