ABC #004: Sarah Josepha Hale, Martha Tillman, Anna Jarvis, Stephen F. Whitman - Holidays among the Stones

2019-08-01

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Before the Civil War there were two national holidays - Independence Day and Washington's Birthday. But in Laurel Hill are 5 people who made American holidays what they are today: *Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who invented Thanksgiving *Martha Tillman, the woman who MAY have invented Memorial Day *Anna Jarvis, the mother of Mother’s Day *Stephen F. Whitman, the man who invented Whitman chocolates *Not included in podcast: Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, who is probably responsible for Fl...

Before the Civil War there were two national holidays - Independence Day and Washington's Birthday. But in Laurel Hill are 5 people who made American holidays what they are today:

*Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who invented Thanksgiving

*Martha Tillman, the woman who MAY have invented Memorial Day

*Anna Jarvis, the mother of Mother’s Day

*Stephen F. Whitman, the man who invented Whitman chocolates

*Not included in podcast: Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, who is probably responsible for Flag Day

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