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Mother's Day at the Red Sails
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Mom either wants all the kids around her, ... or a quiet day at the spa. We can't help you with the spa, but we are a great kid-friendly place for Mom's Day. Have some flowers sent to the restaurant ahead of time, and then bring in the entire clan to show Mom how special she is on "her" day. |
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| In the weeks that followed her mother's death, Anna Jarvis jotted down, on dozens of small pieces of scrap paper, reflections on her mother's life. She intended to put the thoughts together into a biographical memorial to her mother to be distributed among her mother's old friends in Grafton. It seemed to her to be a fitting tribute to the energetic and intelligent mother she deeply mourned. Miss Jarvis never finished the written memorial to her mother. Instead, she founded Mother's Day. | |||||||||||||||||
| Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis, mother of Anna Jarvis, was a local legend at the time of her death. Without ever stepping beyond the limits of what was considered acceptable and respectable in a 19th century lady, she had organized women, given lectures, worked for peace, and fought disease, all on a local level. She did this so well and so effectively that her courage and goodness became a part of the local folklore, and stories about her were preserved through several generations in Taylor County. Still, without her daughter's strenuous and successful efforts to commemorate her, legend would have faded as the descendants of the people whose lives she touched died or moved from the area. It is because of her daughter's efforts that we can know something about this woman to whom the first Mother's Day was dedicated. | |||||||||||||||||
| Historical information courtesy of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History - www.wvculture.org | |||||||||||||||||