All Seasons Naples Spring Activity Guide

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. Leading up to the main event, we'll be watching historical documentaries and creating extravagant hats to wear as we watch the races! Then, watch the big race on May 7th and show off your derby look! Best dressed wins a prize.

Father’s Day Social - Father’s Day in the Earth Day - April 22nd - Join us in celebrating United States is a holiday to honor fathers. and appreciating our planet Earth! Help us Credit for originating the holiday is generally plant herbs in our garden beds and join in on given to Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, a nature walk around the community.

Washington, whose father, a Civil War veteran, raised her and her five siblings after Cinco de Mayo - May 5 - This holiday their mother died in childbirth. President celebrates the date of the Mexican army’s Richard Nixon established it as a national 1862 victory over France at the Battle of holiday in 1972. A day to celebrate fathers, Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. May join us for a Sunday Social with brews, and 5th is also known as Battle of Puebla Day. informative and unique classic saxophone Gather for a presentation on the history performance by Jeff Gross. and cultural significance of the holiday, then celebrate in the Grand Living Room as we pay Juneteenth - June 19 - Commemorate this culinary and musical homage to our neighbors day with a documentary on Juneteenth’s to the South. history and a celebration of freedom.

Juneteenth commemorates the day when Mother's Day - May 8th - Mother's Day is emancipation reached enslaved people in a celebration honoring the mother of the the deepest parts of the South. It wasn't until family or individual, as well as motherhood, June 19, 1865, two months after the Civil maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers War ended and more than two and a half in society. Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia years after the signing of the Emancipation originated Mother’s Day and in 1914 U.S. Pres. Proclamation, that Union Gen. Gordon Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday.

Granger and more than a thousand U.S. Did you know? More phone calls are made troops shared the news of freedom with the on Mother’s Day than any other day of the 250,000 enslaved people in the state. The year. These holiday chats with Mom often anniversary of that day is celebrated as one of cause phone traffic to spike by as much as 37 the best-regarded African American holidays percent. A day to celebrate mothers, join us in this country, ranking next only to Dr. Martin for a Sunday Social musical performance by Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

Lois Kehoe and trio.

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