Have time on your hands? Consider attending the Juneteenth Festival on June 18-19.
National Wildlife Week is March 15-21. Get outdoors and explore the wildlife around you! For more information visit the National Wildlife Federation website.
March is also National Women's History Month.
February is Black History Month. Visit the public library and learn more! All library events are free and open to the public.
From the National Women's History Project:
December Highlights in US Women's History
- Dec 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person; her arrest sparks the modern civil rights movement in the US
- Dec 5, 1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National Council of Negro Women
- Dec 7, 1941 - Capt. Annie Fox receives the first Purple Heart awarded to a woman for her service while under attack at Pearl Harbor
- Dec 10, 1938 - Pearl S. Buck receives the Nobel Prize for Literature for "The Good Earth"
- Dec 10, 1869 - Wyoming is the first territory to give women the right to vote
- Dec 13, 1993 - Susan A. Maxman becomes first woman president of the American Institute of Architects in its 135 year history
- Dec 14, 1961 - President's Commission on the Status of Women is established to examine discrimination against women and ways to eliminate it
- Dec 14, 1985 - Wilma Mankiller is sworn in as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma - the first woman in modern history to lead a major Native American tribe
- Dec 17, 1993 - Judith Rodin is named president of Univ. of Pennsylvania, the first woman to head an Ivy League institution
- Dec 28, 1967 - Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the NY Stock Exchange
November is American Indian Heritage Month. Find out about American Indian heritage in the National Parks here.
From the National Women's History Project: November Highlights in US Women's History.
November is National Novel Writing Month. Join the Young Writer's Project and write a novel!