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Happy Father’s Day folks – History of it all
and My Card for the Gallery
Happy Father’s Day guys… Dads
and Grand Dads!
Today is your day.
The History of Father’s Day stated
just over 100 years ago in 1910. Mother’s
Day was such a hit that it was decided we should have something for Dads as
well.
Wikipedia contribution states the following… quote…
Father's Day is a celebration of fathers inaugurated in the United
States in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting.
After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's
Day in the US, some wanted to create similar holidays for other
family members, and Father's Day was the choice most likely to succeed. There
were other persons in the US who independently thought of "Father's
Day", but the credit for the modern holiday is always given to
Sonora Dodd.
Father's Day was founded in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Arkansas from Spokane,
who was also the driving force behind its establishment. Its first celebration was in Spokane, Washington on
June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William
Jackson Smart, was a single parent who reared his six children in Spokane, Washington. After
hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that
fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her
father's birthday, the pastors hadn't enough time to prepare their sermons, and
the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.
It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped
promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of
Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane. In the
1930s Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again,
raising awareness at a national level. She had the help of those trade
groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers
of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers. Since
1938 she had the help of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated
Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial
promotion. Americans resisted the holiday during a few decades,
perceiving it as just an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial
success of Mother's Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and
sarcastic attacks and jokes. But the trade groups didn't give up: they
kept promoting it and even incorporated the jokes into their adverts, and they
eventually succeeded. By the mid 1980s the Father's Council wrote that
"(...) [Father's Day] has become a 'Second Christmas' for all the men's
gift-oriented industries."
The card I received today from
my wife says it all. Thanks so much Alida – the absolute truth spoken in Love!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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