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Believe it or not, a mother is the founder of Father's Day. And it happened in Spokane in 1909.
信不信由你，父亲节的创始人竟是一位母亲。这件事发生在1909年的斯波坎。
Sonora Dodd is in church with her husband in downtown Spokane on Mother's Day.
母亲节那天，索诺拉·多德和丈夫来到了斯波坎市中心的教堂里。
And she started to drift to her own childhood in her mind and think, "Well, how wonderful fathers are. How come there isn't a Father's Day?"
她开始回想起自己的童年，心想：“父亲是多么的了不起啊。为什么没有父亲节呢？”
So, she petitioned the Spokane Ministerial Alliance and the YMCA and other groups in town, and persuaded them to believe, as she did, that fathers deserved a special day.
于是，她向斯波坎部长联盟、基督教青年会和镇上的其他团体请愿，并说服他们像她一样相信，父亲们值得拥有一个特殊的日子。
One was created and celebrated for the very first time in Spokane, Washington, in the year of 1910, the third Sunday of the month of June.
随后，在1910年，在六月的第三个星期日，华盛顿州的斯波坎市率先为此创立了一个节日，并进行庆祝。
The reason why Sonara was particularly proud of her dad is that her dad was a single dad of six kids. Mom passed away very early in her childhood.
索诺拉为自己的父亲感到非常骄傲的原因，是因为他是一位养育六个孩子的单身父亲。索诺拉的母亲在她很小的时候就去世了。
There is a plaque in front of the house where Mrs. Dodd lived all of her adult life at the bottom of the Perry Street Hill,
多德夫人的成年时期，就是在佩里街山脚下的这座房子中度过的，房前现在有一块牌匾。
the only private home anywhere in Eastern Washington declared a National Historic site.
这是华盛顿东部唯一一座被认定为国家历史遗迹的私人住宅。
In those days, she was identified as Mrs. John Bruce Dodd. Her name didn't really enter into any public conversation.
在那段时间，索诺拉一直是以约翰·布鲁斯·多德夫人的称呼为人所知。她的真名并没有出现在任何公开谈话中。
She was born into a world where women did not have suffrage, where they didn't have the right to vote, they didn't have personhood.
她出生在一个女性没有选举权的世界，无权投票，没有人格。
It's interesting that she had the idea in 1909, saw it happened for the first time in 1910. And then labors for the next 62 years to make it happen as a national event.
有趣的是，她在1909年萌生了“父亲节”这个想法，在1910年就首次落实了。然后在接下来的62年里，努力使它成为一个全国性的事件。
It was celebrated here and there and at other places across the country, and various presidents declared things for a day, but nothing permanent.
美国全国各地到处都在庆祝这个节日，许多任总统也都宣布了关于这一天的相关信息，但并没有成为永久性的节日。
And Richard Nixon, then as president in 1972, just before we got the Expo World's Fair here in Spokane.
直到1972年，就在斯波坎举办世界博览会之前，时任美国总统的理查德·尼克松才正式将之确定为一个永久性的节日。
We're standing by her headstone upon which is engraved the year 1978. So she lived a few years when Father's Day was a national holiday.
我们现在站在她的墓碑旁，上面刻着的年份是1978年。也就是说，在父亲节成为全国性节日几年后，她离开了人世。
We can be grateful that a woman by the name of Sonora Dodd in Spokane thought enough of her dad to create a national holiday that give us all the reason to say "Thanks Dad".
感谢斯波坎市一位名叫索诺拉·多德的女性对她的父亲给予了足够的关注，并创造了一个全国性的节日，才让我们所有人都有理由说一句“谢谢父亲”。
