![]() ![]() Lucas was obsessed with cars when he was in high school, and wanted to be a race car driver - until he was in a near-fatal auto accident not long before his graduation. His parents had an office supply store, and they also had a walnut orchard. He had a pretty average suburban upbringing. Today is the birthday of filmmaker George Lucas, born in Modesto, California (1944). ![]() I am sending this to you because you started Mother’s Day.” The letter read: “I am 6 years old and I love my mother very much. On her wall was a letter with a $1.00 bill sewn to it. Jarvis felt handwritten letters could express love more honestly than greeting cards, and she filed numerous lawsuits against card companies like Hallmark.Īnna Jarvis lived the last years of her life in a nursing home, nearly blind, and almost penniless. It’s held on the second Sunday of every May.Īlmost as soon as Wilson signed his proclamation, companies began selling greeting cards, flowers, and gifts. ![]() Finally, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed an official proclamation declaring Mother’s Day a national holiday. She wrote letters to anyone who had influence, like President Teddy Roosevelt, former Postmaster General John Wanamaker, and even Mark Twain. Jarvis’s mother had been a peace activist who cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, and Jarvis campaigned her entire life for a national day to honor all mothers. Today is Mother’s Day, first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her own mother at a church in Grafton, West Virginia. ![]()
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