Today In History: First Earth Day Celebrated
April 22nd: Today in 1970 the first Earth Day was celebrated. Deciding that a planned one day ‘teach in’ should be an annual event Senator Gaylord Nelson helped to organize what has become the annual reminder of how well we are doing at keeping our enviroment clean. It is a missed opportunity for Hallmark, I suspect because it has no clear mascot, without a corporate overlord how do we know ho to really celebrate any holiday. I would like to humbly suggest we use Mr. Oily, an oil executive with a heart of gold. Anyone else have any ideas?
April 24th, 2006 at 4:55 am
Earth Day cards? Maybe we could all heat up our gas grills or burn our charcoal in honor of saving trees? I was celebrating by being soaked to the bone on a 5 mile walk up at Antietam and, as I recall hearing, you were attacked by raging migraines.
Let’s do that every year!!
April 24th, 2006 at 9:31 am
I would have been out planting things, but stayed inside instead. I did have a belated Earth Day on Sunday, rearranging the natural order of things with my shovel and trowell. Introduced non-native species, no doubt.
I did commune with the earthworms and the birdies.
Leek and raspberry pie will be served later in the summer.