It's the holiday season and we are cued into the sights, and smells of our anticipated favorite foods some of which have been passed down for generations. Why is it we only make some foods during the holidays anyway? I am not sure, but it makes the holiday season and the foods that go with them seem all that much more special to us. As you get our your collection of favorites, be sure to remember where you received that recipe in the first place and the person that it remi

Annie McCarty was born on December 5, 1854, in Clay County, Missouri, to William McCarty and Alice Riley, the child of two long-standing pioneering Clay County families. She lived the longest of all her siblings, as only her sister Nellie survived to adulthood and three sisters and a brother died before the age of 5 years old. Anna was a student at the Clay Seminary and performed in several public exhibitions. One such exhibition took place on Thursday, June 10, 1869. Even