The very popular 3-year DAR pocket calendars are now in the mail and you should be receiving yours shortly! If you do not receive your calendar by early September, please call the Office of Development at 1-800-449-1776 and they will send you one directly. The pocket calendar is attractive as

Like many of you, I enjoy genealogy and am always delighted to establish another patriot or prove a new child of a patriot.  However, for the last few years I’ve encountered far more brick walls than successes.  If you, too, dabble in genealogy, you know exactly what I mean!

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It was a pleasure to begin my official state visits with the Vermont Daughters in the Green Mountain State.

Greeted at the Burlington airport by State Regent, Liz Bicknell and others, we spent the evening in Burlington and drove the next morning to Addison to the John Strong Mansion

Greetings to everyone who might be seeing the Today’s DAR Blog for the first time! If you have just discovered the blog recently as a result of our email blast, you join more than 50,000 viewers who have visited the blog since I began writing it June 30, 2013

When meeting Daughters in my travels, I love to ask why they joined DAR.  For many, it was a family tradition and they enjoy sharing our organization with several generations of their family.  One of my favorite aspects, which draws many women to DAR, is that there is a variety

The symbol of the Young Administration is an eagle and it seems as though they are following me around Headquarters lately. Each time I am at the building working I spot another eagle somewhere, either in our architecture, a museum piece or elsewhere.

I hope you enjoy this slideshow of

Our back yard has a massive live oak tree in the center.  Although we love watching the birds and squirrels play on it, the shade of the tree kept grass from growing.  A few years ago we turned the entire back yard into a garden with a path along the

The 122nd Continental Congress was a tremendous success with the largest attendance in recent years with registration in excess of 3,800.  Opening night featured Leigh Keno of Antiques Roadshow who discussed the value of some of the objects in our DAR Museum.  The entire audience chuckled when Merry Ann

Today I’d like to share with you my favorite place – our ranch.  My husband’s family had lived on a ranch in central Texas for several generations, and although I was raised in one of the largest cities in the country, this city girl has learned to work cattle, build

It was an honor to be a guest of the Sons of the American Revolution for their 123rd Congress held in Kansas City, Missouri last week.  Under the leadership of Steve Leishman, President General 2012-2013, the SAR has grown to over 30,000 members. 

Both the SAR and the DAR