America 250 is a nationwide commemoration effort to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday in 2026, and the DAR is dedicating America 250! Patriots Markers across the country.
Several area students were honored as Good Citizens at the recent Capt. John Joslin, Jr. chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution annual awards ceremony.
When Yachiyo Hamada and Jeanette Rhamsey were born in March 1922, Warren Harding was president, Wallace Farrington was governor of the Territory of Hawai‘i and Babe Ruth had already signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees at $52,000 a year. Later that month, the U.S. Navy’s first aircraft carrier, USS Langley, was commissioned and the first airplane landed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.