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• New York City has an Easter parade on Fifth Avenue, with fancy clothing, hats and bonnets, but it doesn’t have the religious significance of the parades of long ago. • Also on Fifth Avenue in New York, Easter bonnet displays are in shop windows. This stems from a European tradition of decorating hats with flowers to celebrate spring. This tradition is not as strong as it once was. Check your old family pictures though, and you may see yourself or your parents or grandparents all dressed up in Easter finery including hats and bonnets. continued on page 2!
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Page 2 EASTER (continued) • Today, Easter eggs are the symbol that everyone identifies with the spring holiday. The egg is a symbol of new life and fertility. • New life is associated with spring because warmer temperatures and abundant water from rain or melting snow brings grass, trees and flowers back to life. Easter lilies are a beautiful symbol of purity, hope and life. These lilies are native to Japan. • Louis Houghton, a World War I soldier is credited with beginning U.S. production of Easter lilies. He brought a suitcase load of bulbs to the southern coast of Oregon in 1919 and distributed them to his friends and neighbors. • Following World War II, Japanese lily bulbs were inaccessible to foreign customers. The value of Easter lily bulbs in the U.S. rose tremendously, and they became known as “white gold.” Growers, who grew the lilies to beautify their own yards, started businesses for the cash crop. By 1945, there were about 1,200 growers on the Pacific coast from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Long Beach, California. • Today almost all of the bulbs for the potted Easter lily market are grown by 10 farms in a small coastal area along the California-Oregon border. Appropriately, this region is called the Easter Lily Capital of the World. • In the Ukraine city of Kolomyia, there is an egg-shaped building, the Pysanka Museum, that showcases Ukrainian Easter eggs known as pysanky (plural; singular is psanka). The eggs are decorated using beeswax in a wax resist method, and this folk art has been around for thousands of years. There are over 10,000 pysanky in the museum that opened in September 2000. • The world’s largest pysanka is located in the small town of Vegreville, Alberta. This artwork was chosen by the many Ukrainian immigrants in the region to honor the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in their centennial year of 1975. It has inscriptions written in English, Ukrainian, French and German: “This Pysanka (Easter Egg) symbolizes the harmony, vitality and culture of the community and is dedicated as a tribute to the One-Hundredth Anniversary of
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• On April 3, 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif. Ten days later, the westbound rider completed the approximately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound mail’s arrival in St. Joseph by two days. • On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris. Tower designer Gustave Eiffel, a noted bridge builder, was a master of metal construction and designed the framework of the Statue of Liberty, which had recently been erected in New York Harbor. • On April 2, 1902, the first American theater devoted solely to movies opens in Los Angeles. Housed in a circus tent, the venue was dubbed “The Electric Theater.” Admission was 10 cents for a one-hour show. • On March 29, 1927, Major Henry O’Neil de Hane Segrave becomes the first man to break the 200-mph barrier. Driving a 1,000-horsepower Mystery Sunbeam, Segrave averaged 203.8 mph on the course at Daytona Beach, Fla. • On April 4, 1933, the dirigible The Akron crashes in New Jersey, killing 73 people. A miscommunication by crewmembers sent the Akron directly into a storm instead of around it. The storm’s winds caused the ship to plunge nearly 1,000 feet in a few seconds. • On April 1, 1970, President Richard Nixon signs legislation officially banning cigarette ads on television and radio. Nixon, who was an avid pipe smoker, indulging in as many as eight bowls a day, supported the legislation at the increasing insistence of publichealth advocates. • On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr., a deranged drifter. Reagan, apparently unaware that he’d been shot, was shoved into his limousine by a Secret Service agent and rushed to the hospital. In an impressive feat for a 70-year-old man with a collapsed lung, he walked into George Washington University Hospital under his own power. (c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.
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If you are over 30, you should enjoy this! If you are under 30 you will probably not understand. When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot.... In the snow... BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay all that stuff that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it! But now that I’m an adult, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today. You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents! Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butts! Nowhere was safe! And, if you got one down the street, there was another one waiting on you when you made it home! There were no MP3’s or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike or ride your bike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were
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