5/23/26 - Memorial Day Weekend and the Unofficial Start of Summer

Saturday, Sunday, and Monday 5/23-25/26

Short and sweet for Memorial Day Weekend.

Celebrate:

Saturday

Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day

International Jazz Day

Lucky Penny Day

National Italian Beef Day

National Taffy Day

World Turtle Day

Sunday

Asparagus Day

Aviation Maintenance Technician Day

Brother's Day

Indianapolis 500

International Tiara Day

National Escargot Day

National Yucatan Shrimp Day

Neighbor Day

Scavenger Hunt Day

Monday

Geek Pride Day

International Plastic Free Day

National Brown-Bag-It Day

National Missing Children's Day

National Tap Dance Day

National Wine Day

Towel Day - celebrates author Douglas Adams and his best-known work, the science-fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Chapter 3 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy talks about the significance of towels:

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

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