February 25, 2023 is here and with it the start of another adventure. I’m headed to the Carnival Magic for a cruise. It should be fun and I’ll let you know because I intend to keep writing these posts. If you don’t hear from me, you’ll know that the ship’s internet package wasn’t all it was advertised to be. Today is Let’s All Eat Right Day, Pistol Patent Day, National Clam Chowder Day, Chocolate Covered Peanuts Day, International Sword Swallowers Day, Open That Bottle Night, and Quiet Day. Chocolate covered anything wins. Now to history. On this day in 1643, Dutch colonists killed 120 Algonquin Native Americans at Communipaw, NJ in what is now known as the Pavonia Massacre. . In 1751 the 1st performing monkey was exhibited in New York City. Admission was 1 cent. In 1836 P. T. Barnum exhibited an African American slave named Joice Heth, claiming she was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington. On the same day, Samuel Colt patented the first multi-shot revolving cylinder revolver. This is the day in 1862 that Congress formed the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print the newly issued US paper currency. This is the day in 1913 the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution became law, providing the legal basis for the graduated income tax. On this day in 1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler got his German citizenship. On this day we will visit the grave of the author Tennessee Williams who died in 1983 at the age of 71. Here are a few of his quotes that I like: “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be, and you either accept it, or you kill yourself, or you stop looking in mirrors.” “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” “We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where oh where are we going!” I’ll end with “You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.” True enough. Have a good day. Abide.
