Tag Archive for ‘don’t know much about’
Pancakes, Politics and the Civil War
It is sugar and snow time. Abolitionists once looked to maple sugar — as a political and economic weapon against slavery.
Cherry-Picking Thomas Paine
Thirty years ago, on March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech best know as the “evil empire” speech. He also quoted Thomas Paine- an odd choice.
Don’t Know Much About® George Washington
Yes the day we celebrate on the third Monday in February is really called “George Washington’s Birthday.”
It is NOT Presidents Day. Or President’s Day. Or Even Presidents’ Day.
We mistakenly call the third Monday in February”Presidents Day.” But. Really it is George Washington’s Birthday –federally speaking that is.
Don’t Know Much About® Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
February 12 used to mean something — Lincoln’s Birthday. It was never a national holiday but it was pretty important when I was a kid and we got the day off from school in my hometown. The Uniform Holidays Act in 1971 changed that by creating Washington’s Birthday as a federal holiday on the third [Read More]
Don’t Know Much About® Edith Wharton
Born today in New York City in 1862: Edith Newbold Jones, who achieved fame as Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Don’t Know Much About® Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr. on his actual birth-date: January 15, 1929. A post with links to resources
Don’t Know Much About Benedict Arnold
Why is there a statue of Benedict Arnold’s boot? Years ago, I was asked that question on a radio call-in show and honestly did not know the answer. Nor was I even aware at the time there was such a statue. But there it is — part of the Saratoga National Historical Park in Saratoga, [Read More]