November 2026 · Giving Tuesday is December 1

Our Giving Tuesday Campaign is underway!

From now until December 1: one story a week and one small thing you can do.

In Rebecca's words

Rebecca Mormann-Krieger taught high school history for thirty years, always believing that students learn best when they investigate the past for themselves. We asked her what EFP's work is for.

“Recovering stories that were nearly lost and returning them to the children and communities whose history they helped create.”

Did you know?

When La Crosse was a young frontier town in the 1860s, four of its first five barbers were African American.

One of them was Lydia Moss, who owned her own shop on State Street at a time when it was very unusual for a woman to own a business at all. Barbering became one of the most important trades for La Crosse's early Black families, passed down through generations of the Moss, Birney and Shivers families.

Source: La Crosse County Historical Society

This week's one thing

Watch one monologue. Share it with one person.

Meet Lydia Moss, a La Crosse barber whose shop still inspires children to say, “I wanna be a barber like Mrs. Moss.” Watch the video, then share it with one click.

▶ Watch Lydia Moss

More stories to share: George Edwin Taylor · Nathan Smith · Lillian Smith Davenport

Our first book, “A Long Way to Find a Home,” put 1,000 storybooks and 6,000 coloring books in children's hands across five school districts. This Giving Tuesday we're raising $10,000 to do it again with “Lifting As We Rise.” See the plan

Thank you for passing these stories on.

With gratitude,
Rebecca Mormann-Krieger
Historian and Co-Founder
Enduring Families Project: Children's Stories

Enduring Families Project: Children's Stories

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