NOTABLE DAYS & EVENTS The Kentucky Derby - May 7th - is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The competition is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of one and a quarter miles at Churchill Downs. We’ll be watching heartfelt films and historical documentaries, and creating extravagant hats to wear as we watch the races in our Mill Pub! Earth Day - April 22nd - Join us in celebrating and appreciating our planet Earth with a nature walk around Parker Mill and Huron trails. We’ll also be creating the ever popular circular Pour Paintings in earth colors to fill our Resident Artwork Display space! In May, we will showcase a Resident Picture Exhibit for National Photography Month. In conjunction with our Photography Workshop, we’ll also be creating a body of work that captures our community members and the things they hold dear to their heart. Mother's Day - May 8th - is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, whose mother had organized women’s groups to promote friendship and health, originated Mother’s Day and in 1914 U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday. Did you know that more phone calls are made on Mother’s Day than any other day of the year? Join us for a Sunday Social with live music to celebrate the mother in all of us.
Father’s Day Social - Father’s Day in the United States is a holiday (third Sunday in June) to honor fathers. Credit for originating the holiday is generally given to Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, WA, whose father, a Civil War veteran, raised her and her five siblings after their mother died in childbirth. President Nixon established it as a national holiday in 1972. Join us in celebrating with a Sunday Social. Juneteenth - June 19 - We will commemorate this day with a documentary on Juneteenth’s history and a celebration of freedom. Juneteenth commemorates the day when emancipation reached enslaved people in the deepest parts of the South. It wasn't until June 19, 1865, two months after the Civil War ended and more than two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, that Union Gen. Gordon Granger and more than a thousand U.S. troops shared the news of freedom with the 250,000 enslaved people in the state. The anniversary of that day is celebrated as one of the best-regarded African American holidays in this country.
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