Summary
It took a mother to make Mother's Day happen. In the West Virginia town of Grafton (pop. 5,500), the International Mother's Day Shrine, formerly the Andrews Episcopal Methodist Church, is the site where Grafton's own Anna M. Jarvis staged one of the nation's first Mother's Day celebrations, in 1908.
Jarvis was inspired by her late mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis, a women's rights organizer and mom of 12.See the full content of this document
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Ten Ways to Make Her Day More Special
The shrine's annual celebration, starting at 2:30 p.m., is a collective pat on the back, speeches and...
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