Hallow'een or All Hallows Eve

Tonight is Hallow'een or All Hallows Eve. It is the night before All Souls Day in the Christian Church Calendar, but this holy day was placed beside a much older celebration of  the Festival of Samhain in the Celtic calendar. It began the winter half of the year. It was believed that the Cailleach, the aspect of the Goddess who appeared as an old woman, hit the ground with her hammer, making it iron hard until Imbolc. On Samhain night, the gates of the otherworld were open, allowing communion with the ancestors. Spirits were said to roam this night. Food was put out to feed the spirits and some would carve out turnips and put candles in them to keep the spirits from entering their homes. The pumpkin was not a gourd grown in Ireland and is abundant in America.

This marks the New Year of the Celtic Calendar.
Happy Celtic New Year!
(Information provided from "The Celtic Book of Days" - Caitlín Matthews

Happy July 4th, 2014!

Happy 4th of July to all of us!

Memorial Day

Many of us wrote these checks at one time in our lives. Some  have had to cash them. It is for those that we remember this  Memorial Day of remembrance  and honor them especially for giving their all for this country. ~ Butch

Patriot's Day

September 11th

a day we will always remember.

Happy Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day!

Memorial Day

Let us pause this weekend to remember our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and National Guardsmen and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country during times of war. Let us also remember all Veterans who have put their lives in harm's way in order to keep us free as well. 

The base word of Memorial is memory and that is the least we can do for these honorable men and women who have given so much to our country. Some gave their all. Let us not ever forget them.

A Flast From The Past Revisited

A Flash From the Past Revisited

Edgewater Amusement Park

Top Hat 

   

The Little Rascals'

Romper Room

 Soupy Sales

Milky's Party Time

Duck n' Cover

 Diners

 50s Fads

 Michigan and how Michiganders describe it with their hands. ;-)

In 2009 I did a Blog about a Flash from the past and showed photographs from the area where I grew up in the Detroit area of Michigan. Many of those sites are now gone. This latest entry is a collage of pictures of events, celebrities from the area and also the nation that were popular that we may all remember.  Hopefully you will have fun with these.