The effort to create a national Grandparent's day was spearheaded by Marian McQuade of Fayette County. Marian through shrewd wit, and unscrupulous politicing was able to push the holiday through the West Virginia State Legislature, over allegations of vested interest as mother of fifteen children an

"Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country," said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor. "All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day...