The Captains Daughter

I think that most of us assume that Mother’s Day was started at the beginning of the 20th century by powerful lobbyists from the greeting card and floral industries. In fact its history extends all the way back to the Greeks and was eventually usurped by the Christian church like most things. In The States it was championed back in the early 1900s by a woman named Anna Jarvis who had lost her mother and (ironically) never married or had children. This explains all the free time she seemed to have on her hands. Having finally convinced President Woodrow Wilson…