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Warning: earlier and later than period question, but still related
I know there were 50th anniversary commemorations from 1911-16. (Matter of fact, the Moundsville Daily Echo ran a regular "The WAR 50 Years Ago" column during those years.) Has anyone else run across 25th anniversary activities in their towns? Gettysburg got its own attention, but I haven't been able to find as much on a 25th reunion as I have on the 50th.
Also, has anyone seen any 75th anniversary of the Revolution articles in period papers? That would have started in 1851, and our earliest intact local paper starts at 1852.
The boys of '61 were once civilians, and a lot of them would have been little boys watching, perhaps, the last ancient Revolutionary veteran at the Fourth of July parade. I wonder if any of them thought about that when they marched down Main Street in their GAR suits, middle-aged, mostly respectable, some of them staying in step on wooden legs. As Veterans' Day comes up, I think of them.
I know there were 50th anniversary commemorations from 1911-16. (Matter of fact, the Moundsville Daily Echo ran a regular "The WAR 50 Years Ago" column during those years.) Has anyone else run across 25th anniversary activities in their towns? Gettysburg got its own attention, but I haven't been able to find as much on a 25th reunion as I have on the 50th.
Also, has anyone seen any 75th anniversary of the Revolution articles in period papers? That would have started in 1851, and our earliest intact local paper starts at 1852.
The boys of '61 were once civilians, and a lot of them would have been little boys watching, perhaps, the last ancient Revolutionary veteran at the Fourth of July parade. I wonder if any of them thought about that when they marched down Main Street in their GAR suits, middle-aged, mostly respectable, some of them staying in step on wooden legs. As Veterans' Day comes up, I think of them.