Just about everyone knows the story of the Pilgrims and Indians, and how Thanksgiving is believed to have started in 1621 with a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest. Due to that first Thanksgiving, Americans are able to enjoy an annual feast of gigantic proportions, nap on the couch, watch some football and argue with our favorite relatives. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, […]
With Veterans Day coming up this week, we thought this would be a great chance to learn more about how the holiday started and why it’s observed in the United States. Veterans Day was actually established as “Armistice Day” in 1919, which marked the end of World War I, and eventually became a national holiday in 1938. President Eisenhower signed legislation in 1954 to change […]
This Sunday marks the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) for our area (often called daylight savings time). Daylight Saving Time is commonly known as the practice of moving clocks forward one hour in the spring, then back one hour in the fall. It was originally intended to boost energy efficiency and to allow people to have more daylight hours for outdoor work productivity. […]