08-05-2025
Mother's Day celebration at Otsiningo Park
BINGHAMTON, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – A Mother's Day celebration Saturday at Otsiningo Park seeks to remind people of the original purpose of the holiday.
Broome County Veterans for Peace and Peace Action are holding a concert, performance and silent peace walk around the Children's Peace Garden at the park.
Actor Narani O'Shaughnessy will portray Julia Ward Howe, whose proclamation in 1870 lead to the creation of Mother's Day.
O'Shaughnessy says Howe was motivated by the carnage of the Civil War to create a holiday the honored peace so that mothers did not have to send their sons off to war.
'It's bringing people together to remember to put peace back on the agenda big time. I think it's really a good reawakening and awakening of we can create peace and maybe we should be doing that in every way that we can at this point,' she says.
The free event runs from noon to 2 on Saturday and begins at the South Shelter at the park.
There will be live music, refreshments and flowers for mothers.
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