It isn’t a federal holiday and probably never will be declared one, considering how close it it to Labor Day, Still, every year, starting in the middle of August until the month’s end, from Macomb, Illinois to Redmond, Washington to… Read More ›
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Mobile Mardi Gras: Alabama’s French Catholic Holiday First-in-the-Nation
There may not be a trace of French in the Deep South accent of Alabamians and New Orleans may seem to have the lock on Mardi Gras, but it all started as a Catholic holiday in the first French colonial… Read More ›
Five First Families Celebrate New Year’s Eve
If Presidents and First Ladies seem to exclusively spend the Christmas holiday with members of their family, most of those in the last sixty years have celebrated New Year’s Eve with their friends, and almost always away from the White… Read More ›
Christmas at the White House: First Families at Home for the Holiday, Part 4
This is the fourth and final article in the series Christmas at the White House. You can find the previous three at the links at the end of this article. If contemporary observers expect a “theme” each succeeding year of… Read More ›
Christmas at the White House: First Families & Holiday Charities, Part 3
Living in the White House affords even Presidential families who neither earned nor inherited great wealth a privileged lifestyle and while many have privately and publicly supported various charitable organizations or risen to the occasion in the time of a… Read More ›
Christmas at the White House: Trees, Gingerbread Houses, Mennorahs, Celebrity Santas & Other Innovations, Part 2
This is the second segment in a four-part article on Christmas at the White House. To read about The Presidents Presents, Getting & Giving Gifts, go to: https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/05/christmas-at-the-white-house-the-presidents-presents-shopping-giving-getting-gifts-part-1-of-4/ Whether gathering to mark Christmas and Hanukkah as holy days or just… Read More ›
McGuire or Maguire: Who Fathered Labor Day?
McGuire or Maguire? Peter or Matthew? New York or New Jersey? Could it be that even good old Labor Day, a time for parades and picnics was just an elaborate excuse for another good old struggle for power? Not working… Read More ›
Red, White & Betsy Ross: No, She Didn’t! (Did She?) Plus Bizarre Betsyabilia
There’s good reason why Pennsylvania not only recognizes Independence Day as a national holiday, but also Flag Day as a state holiday. It ‘s all because of that Elizabeth Claypoole. Mrs. Ross, to you. Like Plymouth Rock and George Washington cutting down… Read More ›
Two Legitimate First-Generation Presidential Candidates For the First Time in History: Obama & Romney
They’re both long gone but the fathers of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have unwittingly created an unprecedented aspect to the 2012 presidential election. For the first time in American History, both major party candidates are legitimate first-generation Americans. Unlike… Read More ›
Flagging the Lost Holiday & A Gallery of past Flag Day Joys
You could have had off from work today – – if only you made some waves. You could be standing outside, rallying it up, with some blue-red dyed cake in hand. Summertime starts with Memorial Day, ends with Labor Day… Read More ›
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