Do you Celebrate Labor Day?

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Meanderer

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Labor Days seems like a leftover holiday fossil from days past. How do you spend it?

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The first Labor Day happened in 1882, in NYC. It was created by the labor movement as a “workingmen’s holiday,” and it was an absolute rager, according to the Department of Labor, with 10-20,000 marchers participating in the parade and then heading for the afterparty:

While some returned to work, most continued on to the post-parade party at Wendel’s Elm Park at 92nd Street and Ninth Avenue; even some unions that had not participated in the parade showed up to join in the post-parade festivities that included speeches, a picnic, an abundance of cigars and, “Lager beer kegs… mounted in every conceivable place.”

"From 1p.m. until 9 p.m. that night, nearly 25,000 union members and their families filled the park and celebrated the very first, and almost entirely disastrous, Labor Day".
 
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"You’ve spent the summer working hard — or working just hard enough and praying for endless Summer Fridays. The holiday of the people is upon is. But it wasn’t always about having an extra day to nurse a hangover. Or, was it? What exactly is Labor Day, anyway"?

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"Bloomington’s first Labor Day parade was held on September 7, 1891, three years before the day became a national holiday. This parade float, dating to sometime around 1920, is the handiwork of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers Local 79. This local represented blacksmiths at the Chicago & Alton Railroad Shops on the city’s west side".

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Kind of meaningless, especially with the changes in the way people work since Covid.

If you work from home, as so many do, what would be different about Labor Day? Stay home but stay away from the computer? 😄
 
I personally, absolutely appreciate and value the history of this holiday, in both Canada and the USA, what the people did , as well as the effects on the generations that followed.
I do some research on it, every year, and I myself, always learn something I value, and I continue to find it inspiring and meaningful, both personally, and as a nation.
 
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I "celebrated" it when I was working because it was a day off. Until COVID hit my sister would have her annual Labor Day cook outs with great food. Now there's no reason to celebrate it. Now it's just another day.
 
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