from Google Images--
--but except for the flowers, it looks like my view north: the pecan tree and the hayfield beyond
What do Helen Keller and Captain
Kangaroo have in common?
Last week, I forgot to wish a happy Father’s Day to
all my father friends. So, now I’ll say that I hope their Father’s Day
celebrations were happy and full of joy and contentment. I did email my sons on
the proper day.
June
the 21st was also the first day of summer, but not the first day of
summer-like heat. And just think, several years ago, the board of the Salem
Campground changed the date of the week’s revival meeting from August to June!!
Bad move: it’s been hotter in June since that time than anyone ever thought
possible.
On June 22, 1870, the US Department of Justice was
established. For history folks, there is a website that gives interesting
information on this subject.
June
23 was the birthday of Britain’s King Edward VIII. He was born in 1894. Two
other famous folks’ birthdays fall on this day: Johannes Gutenberg was born in
1400 and June Carter Cash, in 1929.
This
was also National Pecan Sandies Day, National Pink Day, Soap Opera Day, and
United Nations Public Service Day.
The first practical modern typewriter was patented on this
day in 1868.
June 24 was UFO Day. The first documented UFO sighting was on this day in 1947.
Today, June 25, is Eric Carle’s birthday and LEON Day. The famous children’s book author came into the world in 1929.
June 24 was UFO Day. The first documented UFO sighting was on this day in 1947.
Today, June 25, is Eric Carle’s birthday and LEON Day. The famous children’s book author came into the world in 1929.
LEON
is NOEL spelled backwards, and tells us that it is six months until Christmas!
On
June 26, the toothbrush was invented and the bicycle patented. The years were
1498 and 1819 respectively. This date is also National Chocolate Pudding Day.
Helen
Keller and Captain Kangaroo, Bob Keeshan, were born on June 27--the lady in
1880, and the Captain in 1927. Also, the melody to the Happy Birthday song was
composed in 1859.
Quickly
now, a dash to the end. June 28 is Paul Bunyan Day; June 29 is Camera Day and
June 30 is Meteor Day and Superman’s birthday. Whew! TMI?
But
wait. From the June, 2014 issue of First Electric’s “Arkansas Living” comes an
entire trivia feature about . . . about . . . Johnny Cash and his (second)
wife, June. Since the recent opening of the Cash home in Dyess, now a Heritage
site of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, we Arkansan’s can claim a
closer kinship with the Cash family. Hence, the remainder of this piece is
about the Cash mystique.
Johnny
Cash had 13 number one songs on the Billboard charts, with his first one being “I
Walk the Line.”
He and
his wife June Carter Cash, won a Grammy for best country vocal performance in
1970 for the song, “If I Were a Carpenter.”
He
hosted his own TV show on ABC from 1969-71.
He
recorded his hit, “A Boy Named Sue,” live during a concert at San Quentin State
Prison on February 24, 1969.
Bob
Dylan’s adulation of Johnny Cash: “He is what the land and the country are all
about, the heart and soul of it personified.”
Google Images
2 comments:
Wow, you were full of into today! I was sorry I missed Solstice. I was on the road. Lots of family stuff in my life right now and the heat is killing. Not feeling great from either stress or heat! I miss a beautiful June! I want that easy meandering into the heat of July...did not happen this year!!! Hope it cools and doesn't rain for your family get together!!!!
Easy meandering into the heat of July, you say. Not gonna happen this year for sure. Maybe it's been this way longer than either of us remember. Thank goodness for air conditioning. There was a heat advisory out today in our area saying older folks should stay inside. I giggled. For once, I considered myself an "older folk." Take it easy--as easy as is possible, given the heat and the stress. I'm trying to write a poem that uses 6 disparate words from the dictionary (given) in only 10 lines. What was this poet who sponsored this contest thinking!!!
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