Lincoln's Birthday
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Lincoln's Birthday
Crazydog | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 10:37 am     Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Growing up in Illinois, we used to get this day off from school. I had never heard of President's Day until I got to college and learned that no other state in the country recognized Lincoln's Birthday as a holiday. I know that state courts are closed. We also used to get Casimir Pulaski's birthday off, I think because of the high concentration of people of Polish ancestry in the state. I am unsure if either is still a holiday anymore even here. |
Sbw | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 10:55 am     Lincoln's birthday USED to be observed nationwide, now we have President's Day instead. |
Essence | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 11:48 am     I remember both Lincoln & Washington's (Feb. 22) birthdays being observed as national holidays. I think they changed to President's Day (celebrating both) sometime around the time when Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday became a national holiday. |
Wargod | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 12:43 pm     My son still gets both off for it. This week in class, they're doing all their activities based on both Valentine's Day, and Lincolns birthday. That's the fun part about first grade..the teachers use anything they can to teach the kids, and do it in a fun way to keep them interested. Yesterday, they used candy hearts to measure different lines and circles, they had a puzzle with math word problems, and when they got the correct answers colored, they found they had colored a heart. For Lincoln's birthday, their social studies lessons revolve around Lincoln's life, and at the end of the week, they'll bring home a book about it with various activities they did and for English, they will listen to stories about him, and write their own paragraphs. My husband, on the other hand, only gets President's Day off. |
Goddessatlaw | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 01:17 pm     Favorite funny Abraham Lincoln quote: (From the White House): "I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it." Favorite serious Abraham Lincoln quote: "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy." |
Whoami | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 01:21 pm     Since I can only remember President's Day, and not separate holidays for Washington/Lincoln, I did a Google search on President's Day, and came up with this site that gives a short, sweet history of when/why President's Day was established. President's Day It seems like most of the "hits" I got on the Google search only highlight Washington/Lincoln as being honored on President's Day. It looks like the original intent was to honor all past presidents. |
Essence | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 01:26 pm     I had to laugh at myself, because based on the article in the link, I wasn't around when they were both celebrated...so I don't know how I could remember that . Maybe in school we did things to celebrate both also. |
Yuhuru | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 01:32 pm     Crazydog, Pulaski day is still in full effect! My mom works in an Illinois school and they get it off-1st Monday of the month of March. |
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