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Anna Jarvis Museum hosting special events for Mother’s Day Weekend
You can go back to the 1800s and catch a glimpse of Anna Jarvis’s life anytime the museum is open for a price of five dollars ...
Anna Jarvis’ vision for Mother’s Day was never meant to be commercial
Jarvis spent the majority of her personal wealth on legal fees and lawsuits against companies using “Mother‘s Day” in ...
Woman who advocated for national Mother's Day to honor her mom fought its commercialization
After successfully advocating for designation of a national Mother's Day to honor her mom, Anna Jarvis fought its ...
Just Askin': Who is the mother behind Mother's Day? Child's promise led to day for moms
Mother’s Day has been observed for more than 100 years as a celebration of moms across the U.S. and even overseas. It was ...
The woman who created Mother’s Day also hated it with a passion — and her family is upholding that tradition
Jarvis set out to establish Mother’s Day after the death of her own mother, whose dream it was to see such a holiday become a ...
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Misunderstood on Mother's Day
Mother's Day can be a source of misunderstanding for non-parents. If we wanted kids and didn't have them, we form different ...
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Mother’s Day Dining – A Celebration of Life, Love, Family and Home
Happy Mother's Day to all! This Mother's Day, take a look inside Chez Maggy, an Italian restaurant in the heart of Denver ...
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This Is Home: Mother’s Day and its W.Va. origin
With Mother’s Day taking place this Sunday, Executive Director of the Anna Jarvis House in Grafton spoke with us about the ...
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How Mother's Day went from a local celebration to national holiday
Anna Jarvis spearheaded the effort to make Mother's Day a national holiday, she later grew to despise the holiday for being ...
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The woman who created Mother’s Day also hated it with a passion — and her family is upholding that tradition
The real history of Mother's Day is fraught with resentment and tragedy as its founder, Anna Jarvis, would eventually come to campaign against the holiday for the rest of her life. ArtBackground ...