We had a correct answer for a this February’s What Is It. Jean Roller of Boulder, Colorado suggested that it is probably a flag standard for a fraternal group called the “Owls.” This group was formed about 1904 and only Master Masons could join. Jean is right that it belongs to a fraternal organization. This item is a staff […]
By Robert Reed Valentines are not as old as love, or even the romantic holiday itself, but they have been around for a long time. Quite a number of authorities and historians consider Valentines to be one of the world’s oldest greeting cards, if not actually the first of their kind. One old English custom called for the drawing of […]
By Dianne L. Beetler When Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States, he brought two boys to the White House to live. They were his sons, 11-year-old Willie and 8-year-old Tad. The boys’ older brother, Bob, was in col-lege and spent little time in Washington, D.C. Because Washington was different from Springfield, Illinois, where the Lincolns had lived before […]
By Robert Reed Growing up the 1950s had to be a grand experience. A new decade of expansion and prosperity had replaced the years of economic depression and world war. Incomes were up as the nation entered the 1950s, and the sheer number of American families was on the increase. When Dwight Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 a delighted […]
February 1 National Freedom Day (1865) February 4 George Washington elected first President (1789) February 4 Founding of the USO (1941) February 11 51st Anniversary of the first American prisoners of war released from Vietnam (1973) February 12 Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday February 14 Valentine’s Day February 20 President’s Day February 22 George Washington’s Birthday February 24 Rebecca Lee became the […]
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