brought self grandparenting back by buying a carton of pink lemonade
two different circus performers claimed to have intended pink lemonade around 1912
the phrase “if life gives you lemons make lemonade” was coined by Christian anarchist Elbert Hubbard, author of the book Jesus Was An Anarchist, for a 1915 obituary
the obituary was for Marshall Pinckney Wilder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Pinckney_Wilder
Hubbard started an artists’ collective and then died on the Lusitania https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbert_Hubbard
he may also have coined the phrase "the graveyards are full of indispensable men”
“Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.”
“Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.“ Hubbard in an essay on Booker T. Washington, later used by FDR
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