Keep your cookout safe

By News Desk on May 23, 2025

For Memorial Day weekend, millions of Americans will fire up grills and gather outdoors to honor fallen heroes. But with warm May temperatures, food safety is critical to prevent foodborne illnesses.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service offers guidance to ensure your holiday cookout remains safe and enjoyable.

For the complete article, foodsafetynews.com

As the end of May draws close, we must continue to educate ourselves and reconsider reconnecting with our History…

The First Memorial Day, May 1st – a story of Memorial Day that must be remembered. History Matters

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In a demonstration witnessed by members of Congress, American inventor Samuel F.B. Morse dispatched a telegraph message from the U.S. Capitol to Alfred Vail at a railroad station in Baltimore, Maryland. The message—“What Hath God Wrought?”—was telegraphed back to the Capitol a moment later by Vail. The question, taken from the Bible (Numbers 23:23), had been suggested to Morse by Annie Ellworth, the daughter of the commissioner of patents.

Morse, an accomplished painter, learned of a French inventor’s idea of an electric telegraph in 1832 and then spent the next 12 years attempting to perfect a working telegraph instrument. During this period, he composed the Morse code, a set of signals that could represent language in telegraph messages, and convinced Congress to finance a Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph line.

On May 24, 1844, he inaugurated the world’s first commercial telegraph line with a message that was fitting given the invention’s future effects on American life.

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