There once was a time when a man, nearly everybody trusted and looked forward to hearing from reported twice a day. In the morning, he gave a complete summary of the news. At lunch time, he told you a story. The story was usually both informative and surprising, often focusing on a person or event of which everyone was aware, but nobody knew the complete version. Or perhaps there was a little known fact which had tremendous impact upon history.
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History tells us celebrations of motherhood have been part of cultures at least as far back as the Ancient Greeks and the Romans. Originally they were celebrations of goddesses and of the earth herself. Later they were celebrations of the church, but the modern celebration of mothers as we know it today was born a little bit later.
In the United States, the birth pangs of Mother’s Day can be said to have had influence from a mother, social activist, and community organizer by the name of Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis, but the Mother of Mother’s Day is considered to be her daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis, The elder Jarvis, daughter of a Methodist minister, married Granville Jarvis, the son of a Baptist minister, and moved with her husband to Webster, an unincorporated town in Taylor County West Virginia. As a merchant in the Appalachian area, he operated a mercantile store.
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