Bairy_Halls t1_j34zphx wrote on January 6, 2023 at 1:57 AM Reply to comment by slothdroid in TIL about Sarah Josepha Hale. She wrote the poem "Mary had a Little Lamb" and was editor of the most influential women's magazine of the time. Helping to found Vassar College. Over the course of 17 years she wrote five different presidents urging them to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. by marmorset Mary had a little lamb It was full of fun and frolics It tried to jump a barbed wire fence and ripped off both its bollocks Permalink Parent 3
Bairy_Halls t1_j34zphx wrote
Reply to comment by slothdroid in TIL about Sarah Josepha Hale. She wrote the poem "Mary had a Little Lamb" and was editor of the most influential women's magazine of the time. Helping to found Vassar College. Over the course of 17 years she wrote five different presidents urging them to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. by marmorset
Mary had a little lamb
It was full of fun and frolics
It tried to jump a barbed wire fence
and ripped off both its bollocks