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On April 14, 2016, I flew to St. Louis and drove a rental car 170 miles to Bloomington for the 120 th Illinois State Conference, Sharon Crumbaker Frizzell, State Regent. The Illinois Society has 7600 members in 106 chapters and a large number attended the conference. Sharon’s theme is “Be...
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During a visit to New Hampshire in August 2014 for the Cathedral of the Pines, we visited the American Independence Museum in Exeter. The museum consists of two buildings, the Folsom Tavern, where George Washington ate in 1789 and the Ladd-Gilman House, built in 1721 by prosperous Exeter merchants. The...
On March 17, I flew to Little Rock for the 108 th Arkansas State Conference, Mary H. Deere, State Regent. Known for its natural beauty and abundance of natural wildlife, the area was incorporated into the U.S. as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. It became Arkansas territory in...
In February we announced that DAR is joining in support and partnering with the Museum of the American Revolution, a ground-breaking new museum set to open in 2017. The Museum of the American Revolution’s mission is to bring to life the events, people and ideals of the founding of the...
I arrived in Chicago on Saturday night, March 12, to join in the celebration of our first chapter’s 125 th anniversary. And what a celebration it was! The Chicago Chapter’s 125 th Anniversary Celebration and Afternoon Tea was held on Sunday afternoon at the Drake Hotel, site of many of...
I flew from the Texas State Conference in Houston to the Louisiana State Capital, Baton Rouge for the 107 th State Conference, Sue Lewis Simpson, State Regent. Sue’s theme is “Sowing Seeds of Service – Focusing on the Future” and her emblem is the state flower, the iris. The Louisiana...
I’m so excited to share that our DAR National Headquarters Facebook page has recently gone above 50,000 “Likes”! Members as well as non-members are part of that 50,000 and the more people who “Like” the page means the more people we can engage with and share stories about the DAR...
As a follow up to last week’s exciting blog from Registrar General, Sharon Withers, about expanding the NSDAR DNA Group on Family Tree DNA’s website, I’m pleased to share even more DNA news! Earlier this year, NSDAR admitted the first DAR member to use Y-DNA as genealogical evidence! Sue Williams...
I was so pleased at the incredibly positive response to our announcement of the Congress App – I see that you all are as excited as I am! (So excited that many of you found the app before we could even give you downloading instructions.) The Congress App has now...
“Lucy Locket lost her pocket Kitty Fisher found it There was not a penny in it But a ribbon ‘round it” How many of you recited this poem when you were a child? Did you give the words much thought? How could a little girl lose her pocket? Why was...