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Our Directory is based on the Calendar of Events. It's designed to be fun and informative as we keep you up to date with all the National Holidays. In honor of Labor Day, enjoy a few great recipes & fun facts.
Labor Day for us means the last long weekend to enjoy outdoor cookouts (grilling BBQ) with the family and the last time to wear those shorts and tank tops before Mom packs them away until next summer. Many families actually pack up all their grill supplies after the Labor Day weekend and bring out the fall decorations in it's place.
Bales of hay and pinestraw start to fill front yards in September along with other decorations like pumpkins, gourds and fall wreaths on doors. Fall wouldn't be be same if we didn't have our ever so popular scarecrows to decorate the porch either.
What is Labor Day?
Labor Day was originally meant as a day to honor and exhibit the American spirit through it's hard working people via the labor unions. Labor Day now is a Holiday set aside to honor all workers and is no longer a labor union issue but is celebrated every year on the first Monday in September. Labor Day is considered a workingman's holiday.
Facts
- The first Labor Day observance was celebrated on September 5th 1882 in New York City. It fell on a Tuesday in that year. New York State's legislature was the first to have a Labor Day bill introduced.
- New York was the first to have a Labor Day bill but it was the State of Oregon that passed the first bill declaring Labor Day on February 21, 1887.
- In 1884 Labor Day was set to be celebrated on the first Monday in September.
- As labor unions spread over the country, so did the Labor Day Holiday.
- Samuel Gomper was the head of the American Federation of Labor in 1898 and he said that Labor Day was.... " the day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would be discussed... that the workers of our day may not only lay down their tools of labor for a holiday, but upon which they may touch shoulders in marching phalanx and feel the stronger for it."
- Labor Day began by being adopted one state at a time instead of being declared a national holiday by the Congress of the United States.
- June 28, 1894 marked the date that the bill was passed in Congress stating that the first Monday in September of each year would be a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and all the U.S. territories.
- Labor Day parades are traditional and so are picnics in the park and the last lazy weekend at the river.
Fun Quotes
- People who take pains never to do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do. - Elbert Hubbard
- If little labor, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains. - Robert Herrick
- It's better to wear out than rust out. - Richard Cumberland
- The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired. - B.C. Forbes
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September is National Month of?
Take a look at all these food holidays for the month of September that are just perfect choices to serve for a Labor Day breakfast.
National Honey month
National Biscuit month
National mushroom month
National Potato month
It's National Week Of?
Now if that's not enough to get your taste buds going then take a look at these breakfast related "weekly holidays" for the month of September.
First week in September is - National Waffle Week
First week in September is also Biscuits & Gravy week.
September Food Holidays
Yep.... the month of September has a whole long list of National Food Holidays. If your interested in seeing the list just go to our "September Food Holiday" page and have fun reading.
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Date's To Remember
Autumn/Fall - September 23 to December 21
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Labor Day is always celebrated on the first Monday in September. In America, Labor Day Holiday usually marks the end of Summer Vacation and the time to get back to school and get ready for the cool snap in the weather. The beach season has ended and most everyone's family vacations have ended as well.
