Shaft,
Thanks for sharing. Love the history and the cartoons.
Hope everyone is having a great Father's Day.
Best,
Rico aka OB
On Jun 18, 2017, at 12:24 PM, ken dorren <kdorren22@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
SOGAGGers – I thought I would provide a bit of education on the history of
Father’s Day. I also found a few cartoons to laugh at on Father’s Day, enjoy
and seize the day.
Warmest, Shaft aka Ken
There are two stories about the origins of Father's Day
The lore goes that the holiday is the brainchild of two different women. The
first, Grace Golden Clayton of West Virginia, suggested to her pastor in 1908
that the church honor fathers, an idea likely inspired by a mining disaster
in nearby Monongah the year before that killed 362 men and left 1,000 widows
and children.
The other woman, more widely recognized as the creator of Father’s Day, was
Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington. Dodd and her five siblings were raised by
a single father in a time when that was largely uncommon, and in 1910 she
started a petition to recognize the holiday.
The first piece of legislation regarding the day was a 1913 bill by Congress
specifying that "[t]he third Sunday in June is Father’s Day." While its
popularity waxed and waned over the years thanks to — no joke — tie
manufacturers, it slowly gained popularity from the 1930s to the '60s. (Read
my colleague Phil Edwards’s piece "How the necktie industry saved Father’s
Day" to get the whole fascinating story.)
In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation
to mark the celebration of Father’s Day, and in 1972 President Richard Nixon
finally signed it into law.
Father’s Day is now celebrated in many other countries, including Russia,
Thailand, and Australia, though not always on the same day as in America, and
not always in the same fashion. For instance, the Telegraph notes that in
Germany, "[in] certain regions it is traditional for groups of men to go into
the woods with a wagon of beer, wines and meats. Heavy drinking is common
and, according to official statistics, traffic-related accidents spike on
this day."
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