Chicago Students Honor Soldiers with Poppy Installation

Poppy Fest in Kentucky brings awareness to Memorial Day

A central Kentucky farm took advantage of its poppy field to bring awareness to Memorial Day.

Chicago students honor soldiers with poppy installation

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools high school students are blending art and history to make a public display for Memorial Day. At Lane Tech High School, a different kind of garden is blooming. Clumps of clay inside of Greg Steffens’s art classroom have weighed, pounded and cut into poppies. Ceramics students recently completed the Poppy Project. “Poppies have been a longtime symbol of remembrance for soldiers and for uniformed officers who have f…

Jim Bradshaw: From Flanders Fields to South Louisiana

The sale of red poppies on Memorial Day began almost immediately after the end of World War I, inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Lt. Col. John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian army.

Alabama Poppy Project honors the military in Prattville

The Alabama Poppy Project has honored the lives of fallen U.S. servicemen and women since 2020. But the tradition got its start nationally at the end of World War I. Julianne Hansen, founder of the Alabama Poppy Project, has been making and planting handmade stoneware poppies in Prattville as her way to remember those we’ve lost in service to our country. Julianne and Steven Hansen started with the first poppy that was placed in honor of Steven’…