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SPEAKER_03: Anna's own legacy revolved around commemorating the memory of her mother, the woman whose work she fought to immortalize, Ann Reeves Jarvis. Ann Reeves dedicated her life through happiness and tragedy to motherhood. She gave birth to 12 children, though she only saw four survive to adulthood. While she was pregnant with her sixth child, Ann Reeves saw the dismal conditions many mothers and children were living in in her hometown of Taylor County, West Virginia. As a result, Ann created a prototype of Mother's Day, Mother's Day work clubs. From 1858 onward, she organized workshops for mothers in the area to learn about maintaining a healthy home. Topics included hygiene, sanitation, medicine, and even how to quarantine households to prevent epidemics. Anna grew up learning about the trials of motherhood from her own mom. One night she overheard her mother praying. I hope and pray, she said, that someone sometime will found a memorial Mother's Day commemorating her for the matchless service she renders to humanity in every field of life. When Ann Reeves died on May 9th, 1905, Anna made it her mission to fulfill her mother's wishes. She was going to create a memorial to mothers, even though Anna herself was over 40 years old, single, and childless. She wouldn't be coming at the project from the perspective of a mother, but that of a daughter. So, on May 10th, 1908, Anna organized the first official Mother's Day services under the motto, For the best mother who ever lived, your mother. And that was mothers with a singular apostrophe. The celebration took place in St. Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, where her mother had donated much of her time. Anna chose the second Sunday in May, since it would always land close to the anniversary of her mother's death. She sent nearly 500 carnations, her mother's favorite flower, to the tiny church. Anna wanted the day to motivate people to honor their own mothers, hence the singular mother in the title. But no less than two years after its first celebration, Mother's Day became a West Virginia state holiday. By 1914, it was a national holiday. But, as with so many commercial successes, each successive year meant the holiday peeled itself farther and farther from Anna's initial vision. Soon, the Philadelphia Inquirer was reporting that you could not beg, borrow, or steal a carnation in May. Other challenges also arose. In 1930, a New York group of philanthropists petitioned for a Parents' Day to bring fathers into the Mother's Day fold. Anna wouldn't stand for it. When Floris hiked the price of carnations, she endorsed an open boycott against buying flowers. She openly denounced the Parents' Day bill as a humiliating attack on mothers and her legal copyright. Any event that used Mother's Day as a commercial enterprise went down in Anna's bad books, including charities that used the holiday for fundraising. She was relentless. By 1944, Anna had some 33 pending lawsuits filed against perceived copyright infringement. Even into her old age, she worked to protect the legacy of her holiday, even if that meant taking it back herself. When she was about 80 years old, she and her sister Lillian went door to door asking for signatures to back an appeal for Mother's Day to be rescinded entirely. The appeal never gained traction, but Anna's story is forever entangled with Mother's Day and the industry she unwittingly ushered forth. Late in life, Anna was blind, deaf, and nearly penniless. She lived in a sanatorium in Philadelphia that cared for her. According to some stories, it was the floral and card industries that secretly paid for her care there. Anna died of heart failure in November 1948. All month, we're talking about mothers. For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Wamanica Podcast. Special thanks to co-creators Jenny and Liz Kaplan for having me as a guest host. Talk to you tomorrow. AT&T and Verizon lure you in with their best phone offers,
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