Seasonal & Holidays
It Happens Here: Grafton’s Link To The Battle Over The Start Of Valentines In America
"Jotham Taft was generally thought of as the father of the American Valentines," Norman Taft, Jr. told WBZ.
GRAFTON, MA — It happens here, in Grafton, where we went back in time to the Grafton Historical Society to solve a 200-year-old dispute – who brought the Valentine card to America?
Norman Taft, Jr. says it was his great, great uncle, Jotham Taft.
“Jotham Taft was generally thought of as the father of the American Valentines,” Taft told WBZ.
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