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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 ...
Jarvis spent the majority of her personal wealth on legal fees and lawsuits against companies using “Mother‘s Day” in ...
After successfully advocating for designation of a national Mother's Day to honor her mom, Anna Jarvis fought its ...
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 ...
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 ...
With Mother’s Day taking place this Sunday, Executive Director of the Anna Jarvis House in Grafton spoke with us about the ...
"Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with ...
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 ...
Mother's Day is about expressing how much you appreciate everything your mom does, and what better way to do that than with a ...
Good intentions don’t guarantee desirable outcomes. For example, in 1910, three years following her mother’s death, Anna Jarvis began the observance of Mother’s Day in Grafton, WV. Jarvis planned a ...
At its heart, Mother’s Day is a celebration of gratitude. The act of mothering, nurturing, caring and sacrificing is so ...