As your Celebrate America! National Chair I was honored to see DAR members from coast to coast and beyond enthusiastically embrace the idea of serving their communities as part of the National DAR Day of Service on October 11, 2015.  They served more ways than you or I could possibly

We docked offshore in Bar Harbor, Maine early on the fourth day of our cruise.  Reaching the shore by tenders, we were delighted to find a group of hardy Maine Daughters, including State Regent Sandy Swallow, her mother, State Vice Regent Liz Hotchkiss, and members of the Mt. Desert Isle

Giving Tuesday was established four years ago as an annual worldwide celebration of generosity. How fitting it is to kick off the season of giving by giving back to our community, our nation and our world!

For 125 years, philanthropy has been a distinguishing hallmark of our National Society. So we

On October 31, 2015, the patrons attending the DAR Library’s James C. Thompson Lecture were given a real treat as Mr. Thompson brought us all back in time to Colonial Virginia. More specifically he brought us the story of William “Billy” Lee by going back through complex family genealogies, and

On Tuesday we arrived in Saint John at 11:00 am for a full day to explore the area. Saint John is Canada's oldest settlement and New Brunswick remains remarkably unspoiled.  Saint John's history dates to 1604, when the Sieur de Champlain landed nearby on the feast day of Saint John

Recent events inspired this issue’s Flashback item. On April 1, 2015, on the invitation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, President General Lynn Forney Young attended an event marking the launch of a project to digitize the Royal Archives of King George III, who reigned from 1760–1820. The effort, initiated

When visiting the DAR Museum’s new exhibition Remembering the American Revolution 1776-1890, a large blue rococo-style sofa stands out from other objects.  Its historical significance prompted me to give the 18th century sofa a more authentic look in upholstery fabric and design.

Colonel Thomas McKean who signed the

On Monday I was in the office so that I could meet with the Constitution Hall restoration team and get an update on the progress of the work. Things are going well, even with the challenges of working around the busy Constitution Hall performance schedule. I want to share an

“You’ve Got Mail!”  the title of a popular 1998 movie was also the theme of the Office of the Registrar General during the month of October.  In the movie version, the title refers to e-mail but in Data Entry, it refers to postal mail, specifically large envelopes containing new member

In Bergen County, New Jersey there is a town no one I have ever met, who is not from that town, has ever heard of. It is named Emerson. Named for the famed poet, yet obscure enough it is New Jersey’s second best kept secret, after wherever they are hiding