Holidays and Observances

Immigrants imprint 4th with rituals from home (The Columbus Dispatch)

3 Jul 2008

In celebrating the most American of holidays, Nazar Taleghani will do what many other Americans do: grill some hamburgers.

Immigrants imprint 4th with rituals from home (The Columbus Dispatch)

3 Jul 2008

In celebrating the most American of holidays, Nazar Taleghani will do what many other Americans do: grill some hamburgers. Yet the family cookout on Friday will also include tastes of his native land (lamb kebabs, anyone?) as well as his wife's (how about a brat?).

U.S. Census Bureau issues Facts for Features in observance of Labor Day 2008: Sept. 1 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

1 Jul 2008

WASHINGTON----The first observance of Labor Day is believed to have been a parade of 10,000 workers on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, organized by Peter J. McGuire, a Carpenters and Joiners Union secretary.