Every year March is designated Women’s History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history.  Did you Know? Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week? Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of […]

 Women’s Right to Vote Came After Many Attempts and Many Years of Effort. In 2020, the 19th Amendment Celebrated 100 Years of Existence.  Women’s suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the mid 19th century, besides women working for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, women sought to change voting laws to […]

By Bobbie Sweeney  St. Patrick’s Day—a great day for the Irish in America. It is not necessary that you come from Ireland or that you are born of Irish parents—everybody suddenly becomes part of the fun-loving, hard-drinking Irish culture on this festive day. Whatever your favorite color happens to be, it changes to green on St. Patrick’s Day. Having an […]

March 1 Employee Appreciation Day March 1 Ratification of the Articles of Confederation (1781) March 1 152nd Anniversary of the establishment of Yellowstone National Park as the world’s first national park (1872) March 2 Read Across America Day March 5 Boston Massacre (1770) March 11 Congress establishes Army Corp of Engineers (1779) March 16 Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade, 9:30 […]

By Maureen Timm  The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foil phonograph. While working to improve the efficiency of a telegraph transmitter, he noticed that the tape of the machine gave off a noise resembling spoken words when played at a high speed. This caused him to wonder if he could record a telephone […]