Saturday, August 16, 2014

Still Life With Robin: The Days of August - Part II

Photo by Janneke Vreugdenhil via Wikimedia Commons
by Peggy Robin

On the first Saturday in August I devoted my column to a complaint about August, and its dismaying lack of an emblematic holiday. I went over the first two weeks of August day by day, suggesting events and commemorative occasions that could easily be elevated to the status of a big-deal celebration. Now I present the last two weeks of August with similar intent. There are some doozies here. I particularly like Wayzgoose Day, on the 24th.

August 16: Hawaii Statehood Day

August 17: Davy Crockett Day – on this day in 1786 the American folk hero was “born on a mountaintop in Tennessee” … and if you can believe the songwriters at Disney Studios, “killed him a b’ar when he was only three.”

August 18: Bad Poetry Day

August 19: National Aviation Day

August 20: St. Stephen’s Day (National Holiday of Hungary)

August 21: Winnie-the-Pooh’s Birthday

August 22: Tooth Fairy Day

August 23: Vulcanalia – The Vulcan Fire Festival

August 24: Wayzgoose Day – Nope, I’m not going to explain this – you’re going to have to look it up.

August 25: National Park Service Day

August 26: National Dog Day

August 27: Banana Lovers Day

August 28: Dream Day – The Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have a dream” speech

August 29: Happy Housewives’ Day

August 30: Slinky Day

August 31: National Eat Outside Day

So, in closing, let me bid you an appropriately Hawaiian “Aloha!” (for today’s holiday, Hawaii Statehood Day).

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Still Life With Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and All Life Is Local on Saturdays

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