Today was President's Day. When I was a kid we got two days off: one for Lincoln and one for Washington. We spent days preceding our vacation making presidential silouettes and learning about "Honest Abe", the cherry tree, and the "father of our country". I doubt teens today even know what all that's about. It was a simpler time when our presidents were men to be revered. The nation hadn't yet discovered the dirty laundry and we had an innocence about us that shattered with JFK's assassination and with Nixon's Watergate. Legacies . . . what legacies. Lost innocence is never regained.
Two Day Off School! Posted February 20, 2006
Two days off in February?... the only way we got time off of school in February was if we had a blizzard. We went back to school after Christmas and did not have a day off until Easter vacation unless it snowed lots.
Then we had to walk to school 5 miles in the snow back in my day ;-)
Posted by: Maureen McCabe | December 22, 2006 at 04:54 PM