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[email protected] Another Mother’s Day has passed, and I feel the weight of expectation lifted off my shoulders. I’ve written about the evolution of Mother’s Day for over 10 years. So this may be a repeat for some of you. I always felt a few holidays were put on the calendar to sell greeting cards or perhaps boost a lull in candy sales after Easter. Though I have a mother and am a mother, Mother’s Day has landed in that category. I want my children to learn to give me gratitude because I deserve it, not because the calendar dictates it. If people deserve to be celebrated, it should be every day or not at all. That’s right. There is a lot of pressure to deliver the goods to mother figures, and there is always someone left behind. I want to remind people the pressure is over and there is a lot of Mother’s Day history to unpack. ....
When the nineteenth century was winding down, and she had become an old lady, Julia Ward Howe had her palm read by âan expert.â The reader traced the wrinkled lines and exclaimed, âYou inherit military blood; your hand shows it!â Possibly it did. Howe had martial forebears on both sides of her family. One was South Carolinaâs Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, the celebrated âSwamp Foxâ who had bedeviled the British while hiding with his brave band of patriots in Low Country marshes. Yet the lady with the pugnacious palm hated war. She had tried to organize mothers of the world against it, even to the point of holding a Womenâs Peace Congress and lobbying for a worldwide Motherâs Day fifty years before Anna Jarvis persuaded Woodrow Wilson to proclaim the second Sunday in May as such. Mrs. Jarvis wanted mothers memorialized; Mrs. Howe had wanted them mobilized. ....
Mother s Day Image: History and 10 things to know about how Mother s Day started Mother s Day is just round the corner, on May 9th. Mother s Day has been celebrated in all countries across the world for years. It is a day that both children and adults look forward to every year. Mother s Day gifts, events and special menu in restaurants are very popular but this year amid the devastating pandemic, celebrations are low-key. Families will celebrate mostly at home and make sure everyone is safe. Not just fun and food, Mother s Dayhas also been associated with women s movements demanding equal rights. In the United States, in the 70s, women on ....
In an Early Republic period defined by expansion and concurrent policies such as Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, national narratives seemed to have no place for Native Americans. But the novelist and activist Sedgwick offered a different vision of that foundational American community, creating in her historical novel Hope Leslie a case for what she called (in the book’s preface) “their high-souled courage and patriotism.” And her character Magawisca, a young Pequot woman who narrates to an English audience her own account of the 1637 massacre at Mystic, offers a “new version of an old story,” what Sedgwick calls “putting the chisel in the hands of truth, and giving it to whom it belonged.” ....
Columnist Happy Valentine’s Day! If I were on Facebook, and if I could figure out how to do it, I would plaster this page with little pink and red heart emojis right now. Some people say Valentine’s Day is nothing but a Hallmark holiday, invented by the greeting card industry as a means to rake in even more money. Hallmark is apparently very powerful, right up there with Exxon and Pfizer and the Koch Brothers. The Hallmark Corporation greedily goes after our heartstrings in order to open our purse strings. That’s what some people say. Yes, as Mitt Romney once pointed out, corporations are people too, and very avaricious people at that. Hallmark, say the skeptics, is not content to exploit our birthdays, anniversaries, high-school and college graduation, major holidays religious or pagan, life events including marriage, divorce and the arrival of new babies, loss and change, death and dying; no, new occasions must continually be sought out and added to the ....