Happy 100th Mother’s Day!
Mother’s Day, as we celebrate it now in the U.S., began when Anna Jarvis celebrated it in 1908, in a church in Grafton, WV, to honor her own mother. It caught on so quickly in other states that by 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared it a national holiday. (Anna Jarvis actually became a swift opponent of Mother’s Day, as it became more commercialized. She said, “I wanted it to be a day of sentiment, not profit.”)
This is, essentially, the 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day in WV! Happy Mother’s Day!
Posted by Erin | May 11th, 2008 | in Entertainment, Local News
