On June 19, 1910, a Father’s Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane, Washington, by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil war veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. She was also a member of Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian Church), where she first proposed the idea. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis’ Mother’s Day in 1909 at Central Methodist Episcopal Church, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday to honor them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father’s birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday in June. Several local clergymen accepted the idea, and on June 19, 1910, the first Father’s Day, “sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city”.
62 years later, it was finally made a federal holiday. That was a wild ride.
Frankly, I’m surprised feminists haven’t tried to de-establish it as a blow to toxic masculinity.
Regardless, my personal thoughts on Father’s Day are as follows:
In 1885, at the age of 18, a Swedish farm hand said “this stinks” and hopped a boat to America. At the age of 49, his 43 year old wife gave him a baby boy. Who eventually decided that farming stunk, and got himself a nice cushy factory job where you only have to work 8 hours a day and get weekends off.
At the age of 49, his 42 year old wife gave him a baby boy.
Who doesn’t have to work in a factory, and makes millions of people happy on the internet every day.
I am grateful for fathers who live the American Dream of doing what they need to do in order to make life better for their children.
All of my grandparents came over from Norway. My mom’s mother really disliked Swedes. Her favorite liitle saying was, “Ten tousand svedes ran troo de veeds, chased by one norvegian”.
Scandanavians are weird. They left the God-forsaken tundra of northern Europe to move to America and settled into the God-forsaken tundra of Minnesota and north from there.
Glad to live in Texas!
West Texas or East Texas or North Texas or South Texas. It’s really 4 states states you know.
I thought it was just a state of mind.
You are right. On the coast south of Houston.
I’m West Texas…my sister lives near you around Lake Jackson.
I live in Lake Jackson.
Actually, though, the agreement that the Republic of Texas made wirh the USA gives Texas the power tp split into five separate states.
…forgot about Central Texas…wouldnt want to hurt all the snowflakes feelings there around Austin.
Would it be possible to do the split with the Rio Grande adjacent territory being a state and the other 4 made of the rest? I think the wash would be +6 Republican Senators. Also, as part of the separation mandate a wall along the border with the new state of Liberal Grande. In 20 years it will be absorbed by Mexico and we will lose 2 more Democrat Senators. Plus we can then have real border control and a place to send all the other captured illegals.
Can this be done without gerrymandering?!
Gary Hart was famously defeated because of Gary-Meandering.
Will the sock puppet Lambchop-Cortez do any better without Shari mindering?
That “Woke-Iman Go!” chick who married her brother probably only got elected in Minnesota due to shariamandering.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
I think it will be demanded. I know I would.