September 25th, 2022 is here. It’s the calm before the arrival of Hurricane Ian. Now would be a nice time to have a crystal ball to tell me where Ian is going to make landfall and which line it’s going to take. A week from now I’ll know if I made the right decision (stay or run for the North). Today has a long list of events: Binge Day, Daughter’s Day, Gold Star Mother’s Day, National Comic Book Day, National Cooking Day, National Crab Meat Newburg Day, National Lobster Day, National One-Hit Wonder Day, World Dream Day, and National Quesadilla Day. Now to the history of this day. On this day in 1237 the Treaty of York was signed establishing the boundary between England and Scotland. In 1639 the 1st printing press in America was set up at Harvard College. This is the day in 1789 the Bill of Rights was proposed by Congress. On this day in 1861 the Secretary of the Nave authorized the enlistment of slaves. On this day in 1911 the groundbreaking for Fenway Park In Boston was held. On this day in 1915 the Battle of Loos began which lasted until the 14th of October. The British deployed chlorine gas which was blown back into their own trenches killing 59,000 of their own troops. On this day in 1926 Henry Ford announced an 8 hour, 5-day work week for workers at the Ford Motor Company. In 1965 the 60-year-old Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Page pitched 3 scoreless innings. This day in 2016 the great Arnold Palmer died. He told us how to play golf: “Git it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.” Then next dead person is Marion Zimmer Bradley who wrote science fiction and said, “To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.” The last dead person for today is M. Scott Peck who wrote the book “The Road Less Traveled.” He said, “All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about 7 years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up” and “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.” Abide.
