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July 4   “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”                                 […]

First Monday in September   Eleven-year-old Peter McGuire sold papers on the street in New York City. He shined shoes and cleaned stores and later ran errands. It was 1863 […]

Second Monday in October   Today we take for granted that the world is round. In the fifteenth century, however, most people believed the world was flat. They thought that […]

November 11   In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month, the world rejoiced and celebrated. After four years of bitter war, the Allied […]

Fourth Thursday in November   We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that’s happened to us since we […]