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Mother's-Day
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- "Mom-orabilia:
Mother's Day history from Rhea to the soccer mom." ... "As Mother's Day
comes around again in the United States, 88 years after President Woodrow
Wilson made it a national holiday, news of motherhood is often focused
on celebrity moms." ... "But such famous contempo-moms aside, people have
celebrated mothers and motherhood since ancient times in Greece. There,
the focus of Hellenistic hoorays was Rhea, mother of the gods. She was
honored as a subject of worship and festivals." ... "In the 17th century,
the English paid tribute to their mums on Mothering Sunday, the fourth
Sunday of Lent." ... "[In the US] As surviving Union and Confederate soldiers
went home after the Civil War, community tensions were predictably high.
So in the summer of 1965 [sic 1865], Anna Jarvis organized a Mothers' Friendship
Day event at the courthouse in Pruntytown [West Virginia]." ... "By 1923,
[Anna Jarvis's daughter, Anna Jarvis] she was filing lawsuits trying to
stop celebrations of Mother's Day. She felt the observance she'd begun
had been turned into a commercial exploitation." -By
Cathryn Meurer -CNN
