Happy Valentine's Day

       People will go to great lenghts to find their one true love. Author Mark Twain was right when he said "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Valentine’s Day legends, facts and more. How did Valentine's Day get started? Why is it celebrated on February 14?

Legend: Valentine’s Day commemorate the anniversary of the death of St. Valentine, a Roman clergyman who was executed on Feb. 14, about 270 A.D., for secretly marrying couples in defiance of the emperor.

Legend: Valentine’s Day began as a Roman fertility festival.

Fact: In the 1840s, Esther Allen Howland (1828 - 1904), a native of Massachusetts, began to sell the nation’s first mass-produced valentine cards.

Did you know:

* There is a 'Valentine, Nebraska' and a 'Valentine, Texas'. How about 'Loving County, Texas' or 'Lovelady, Texas'. It seems that the State of Texas is just full of love.

Reprinted in-part with permission of yours truly.