This morning while reading about various Memorial Day celebrations being planned in and around Minnesota, Kewanee popped into my mind. Here’s why. In Henry L. Kiner’s 1910 book, History of Henry County, Illinois, Vol. 1, he wrote that in 1863, Kewaneean Rufus P. Parrish began a tradition of decorating military veterans’ gravesites with flowers. Kiner… Continue reading Memorial Day and the Parrishs of Kewanee
