Subj : Today in History - 1868
To   : All
From : Dave Drum
Date : Tue May 30 2023 04:18:00

30 May 1868 - DESIGNATED AS "DECORATION DAY" BY JOHN A. LOGAN: The idea
for Memorial Day (known as Decoration Day in the 1800s) did not arise
with General Logan; he had been inspired by local commemorations of
Civil War dead already being held in pockets throughout the North and
the South, in some cases before the war had even concluded. Logan, in
fact, had delivered the keynote address at an April 29, 1866, Decoration
Day commemoration in Carbondale, Illinois, in which Union Army veterans
paraded in tattered uniforms and spread flowers on cemetery graves.

LoganrCOs wife wrote in her 1913 memoir that she had suggested the holiday
after becoming so moved by "the little flags and the withered flowers
that had been laid" on Confederate graves in Petersburg, Virginia.
Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, claims the holiday originated there even
earlier when in 1864 a teenager mourning her Union Army father and a
mother honoring her son who fell at Gettysburg laid flowers on their
graves and began an annual town tradition.

The federal government weighed in on the debate 50 years ago when
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a May 26, 1966, proclamation that
"officially recognized that the patriotic tradition of observing
Memorial Day began one hundred years ago in Waterloo, New York." 

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Memorial Day Baked Beans
 Categories: Beans, Pork, Vegetables, BBQ
      Yield: 6 servings

     32 oz (2 cans) baked beans w/pork
    1/2 lb Bacon; chopped
      1 lg Onion; peeled, diced
    1/2 c  Light brown sugar
      4 tb Ketchup
      3 tb Open Pit bbq sauce
      3 tb French's mustard
      2 tb Molasses

  Set the oven @ 350-|F/175-|C.

  Mix together baked beans with pork, bacon, onion, brown
  sugar, ketchup, barbeque sauce, mustard, and molasses in
  a Dutch oven.

  Cover and bake in the preheated oven until thickened and
  bubbling, 45 to 60 minutes. 

  Yield: 6 servings

  RECIPE FROM: https://www.allrecipes.com

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