Category: Holidays

Labor Day! A Day Off, for Many!

Happy, Labor Day! This federal holiday was originally based on a number of deaths of union workers, at the hands of the US military, during a strike of organized labor.  First observed September 5, 1882 – President Grover Cleveland reconciled…

July 4th, Independence Day

Many years ago our fore fathers signed the Declaration of Independence!  This was to declare the Thirteen colonies “Free and Independent States… Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown.”  This was one of the biggest and significant actions ever…

It’s Memorial Day

It’s Memorial Day It drizzlesAn older man limps across a parking lotHis arms are crossed behind his backIt’s Memorial Day He enters Italian Kitchen, Tomato PiesBest pizza in town, they’re open, tv on, menu in windowIt’s Memorial Day They are…