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Sunday, May 8, 2011

What do UUs have to do with the history of Mother's Day?

Julia Ward Howe
Unitarian Julia Ward Howe founded Mother's Day in 1870 as a way of activating women to work for peace. It did not take long before the holiday became the commercialized event it is today.

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