Thursday June 12, 2008
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 12:59 pm
To commemorate the life of Anne Frank, today is considered Diary Day, in celebration of her birthday. Jot a note in your journal in memory of Anne.

Thursday June 19, 2008
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 12:59 pm
It’s Juneteenth, the oldest celebration of freedom from slavery. Let freedom ring!
Saturday June 21, 2008
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 12:59 pm
Summer Solstice is today…say goodbye to Spring.

Tuesday July 1, 2008
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
Author George Sand (aka Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant) was born on this day in 1804. She wore men’s clothing and smoked in public, pushing the early 19th century social boundaries. Novelist Ivan Turgenev said of her, "What a brave man she was, and what a good woman."


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