Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts
On April 14
On this day in ...
... 1939 (70 years ago today), John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath was published. Sold at $2.75 a copy, it became both an immediate bestseller and an immediate target for banning and burning. But the timeless Depression-era story of the Joad family, driven from their dust-bowled home in Oklahoma into unwelcoming migrant labor camps in California, outlasted critics. These seem good economic times to (re)read Grapes -- or, for that matter, the excellent nonfiction account of the same phenomenon, Factories in the Field, written by Carey McWilliams the very same year.
... 2009 (today), are celebrated New Year's festivals in Thai and Cambodian cultures. (credit for 2003 photo of Thai New Year festivities in Australia)(Prior April 14 posts are here and here)
A Happy New Year ... of reading
All of us at IntLawGrrls look forward to your visits this New Year!
(credit for 1941 Works Progress Administration poster)
On January 1, ...
... 1908 (100 years ago today), hundreds of thousands of revelers celebrated the New Year just after the 1st lighted-ball-drop from the New York Times' tower at Times Square. (photo credit) Though the newspaper moved to a different site long ago, the annual celebration remains, as is evident in the video above. Enjoy!... 1947, the Canadian Citizenship Act came into effect. By this act persons in the northernmost American country attained the status of citizens for the 1st time. A local newspaper enthused: "[T]here are no more Irish-Canadians, French Canadians, Ukrainian Canadians, German Canadians. They are now just plain Canadians—12,000,000 of them."
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