Tag Archives for: "American holidays"

While both Veterans Day and Memorial Day are Federal holidays which honor those who have served the United States Armed Forces and prior to that in the Civil War, the American holiday known as [...]

Memorial Day is not just about barbecues, beaching and a little flag waving.  This American tradition has solemn and important origins.  It dates back to 1864 when women in Boalsburg, [...]

St Patrick’s Day in the USA is a uniquely American holiday tradition.  Although March 17, St Patrick’s Day, was quite a solemn religious occasion in Ireland until recently, in those cities which [...]

Labor Day falls on September 3, 2018.  In and around Boston, you can catch music festivals and festivities and activities take advantage of the last days of summer – there are kayaking adventures [...]

Halloween is a time when superstition reigns alongside dress-up fun and (scary) celebration!  It is one of the more popular holidays that Americans observe annually. Halloween is thought to have [...]

Labor Day in America is celebrated on the first Monday of the month of September. The first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882, Tuesday September 5th, to honor and recognize the contributions by [...]

On the third Monday of every January, the United States honors its greatest civil rights hero, Martin Luther King Jr. with a Federal holiday marking his January 15 birthday. King was [...]

Christmas time! The time for giving, and we express that spirit by giving to loved ones. It is difficult to come up with unique gift ideas . Like many who are celebrating the season far from [...]

These next days up to Christmas, as we are headed to the mall to splash out on nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters, armed with wish-lists from the younger members of family and friends, the [...]

    Black Friday, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving, and associated with crowds of bargain hunters streaming to the malls of America, may just be seeing its last hoorah as Cyber Monday [...]