Today is President’s Day, a combo of holidays for George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays, making a new Monday holiday.
These days people don’t seem to celebrate much except for having car and furniture sales.
When I was a kid, we lived in a small town (Pawcatuck, CT and Westerly, RI are sister towns, virtually interchangeable with each other).
Our combined town celebrated George’s birthday with cherry pies.
All the kids went around to the stores, and even bars!, and collected Table Talk pies.
I would come home with piles of the pies – which I loved and is still my favorite today.
As far as I remember, no one did anything for Abe’s birthday 🙁
I have mentioned this quirky event to several others and nobody has heard of giving away cherry pies like this on any holiday.
But everyone I’ve asked wishes that it still happened!
