Happy Mother's Day

 Leetes Island Garden Club's 40th annual plant sale.
 The money raised helps fill and maintain the planters on the Green, on Whitfield Street, at the Town Marina,  and the plantings on "Leetes Island Lane," the alley just off the Green.

"In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace."

Mother's Day Proclamation  by Julia Ward Howe, 1870
To read the entire proclamation go to:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/0000/1870_howe_mothers-day.htm