by bethwestcott | Dec 23, 2024 | Christmas, Commemoration, Holiday, Inspiration, Memories, Thoughts
The Christmas season rushed in and skidded past quickly this year. At least it did for me. And I’m feeling a bit nostalgic. I grew up in a large family and remember Christmas as a warm, happy, family time. I loved decorating the Christmas tree, baking cookies,...
by bethwestcott | Sep 11, 2024 | Commemoration, History, Thoughts
Twenty-three years ago, on 9/11/01, terrorist attacks shook the United States to its core. We were awakened to a national sense of vulnerability and loss that we’d never experienced in recent times. In 2011, the 10th anniversary year of the 9/11 attacks, I met...
by bethwestcott | Sep 11, 2023 | 9-11-2001, Commemoration, History, Memories, Thoughts
It was a sunny, blue-sky, late summer morning. An ordinary day, September 11, 2001. I’d watched the news and weather on TV earlier, but I was now into my daily routine at home. My husband’s nephew had called to say his wife was in labor, so my husband, who was a...
by bethwestcott | Dec 3, 2019 | Commemoration, Holiday, Inspiration
What traditions or activities during Advent add meaning to your celebration of Christ’s birth? The church in which I grew up did not celebrate the season of Advent. We had the Sunday school Christmas play, the choir cantata, and Sunday school lessons and sermons...
by bethwestcott | Aug 11, 2019 | Commemoration, Fun
BATHTUB COMMEMORATION In Moravia, N.Y., a small town on the south end of Owasco Lake in central New York, is Fillmore Glen State Park, named in honor of Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth president of the United States. Fillmore, elected vice president in 1849, became...
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