Origin
of Father's Day... The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers
did not meet with the same enthusiasm, perhaps because, as one
florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal
that mothers have.”
On July
5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event
explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362
men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the
Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time
commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane,
Washington woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised
by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s
Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA,
shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea,
and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s
first statewide Father’s Day on July 19, 1910.
Slowly,
the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by
using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a
button in Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged
state governments to observe Father’s Day. However, many men
continued to disdain the day. As one historian writes, they “scoffed
at the holiday’s sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with
flowers and gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such
holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products, often paid
for by the father himself.”
Father’s
Day gives us the opportunity to show dad how much we care. Cook for
dad this Father's day. Here is a list of recipes that's easy,
affordable and big on flavor.
Getting
started... shrimp
This
will satisfy the belly... roast and veggies
Refreshing...
fruit drink
Finish
the meal with... coconut honey bananas
Ooooo, looks delicious, Christine! And this is coming from someone who just ate dinner :-P
ReplyDeletewow those looks awesome!
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