| Writer: Kat Leigh Cassidy Piece Name: The Teddy Bear Email: blackfireandstars@hotmail.com In the year 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt was in Mississippi on a hunting trip. He was a extremly good hunter. Yet on this trip he had no success. His hunting party, afraid of the Presidents disappointment, captured a young bear cub and tied it to a nearby tree. The President was taken to the tree and told to shoot the bear. He refused to and the bear cub was released. A Washington Post cartoonist, Clifford Berryman made the moment into a cartoon called "Drawing The Line In Mississippi." Morris and Rose Michtom, New York Store owners, drew inpspiration from the cartoon. They created a hand-stitched bear to sell in their shop. The bears were wonderful at selling out quikely. The Michtoms wrote to ask President Roosevelt if they could name the new bear "teddy". The President consented and the rest is history. So get out there and buy a teddy bear for it's 100th birthday!!!! |
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