May

The June meeting has been changed from the 4th of June to the 11th of June at the Mercy Cross Housing facility. Please > click here < for a map to the Mercy Cross Housing facility. Location: 1135 Ford St., Gulfport, Time: 1:00 pm.

May Holidays

Holiday	Date / Day	Details
May Day	May 1st - Sunday	Observance
Eid al-Fitr	May 3rd - Tuesday	Muslim
Cinco de Mayo	May 5th - Thursday	Observance
National Day of Prayer	May 5th - Thursday	Observance
National Nurses Day	May 6th - Friday	Observance
Mother's Day	May 8th - Sunday	Observance
Peace Officers Memorial Day	May 15th - Sunday	Observance
Lag BaOmer	May 19th - Thursday	Jewish
Armed Forces Day	May 21st - Saturday	Observance
National Maritime Day	May 22nd - Sunday	Observance
Ascension Day	May 26th - Thursday	Christian
Memorial Day	May 30th - Monday	Federal Holiday

1996 The ANA initiated "National RN Recognition Day" on May 6, 1996, to honor the nation's indispensable registered nurses for their tireless commitment 365 days a year. The ANA encourages its state and territorial nurses associations and other organizations to acknowledge May 6, 1996 as "National RN Recognition Day."

Mother's Day - In 1933, Mrs. H. H. McCluer, the past president of the American War Mothers, requested a stamp honoring America's mothers be released by the Post Office Department. Postmaster General James A. Farley approved of her idea, and President Franklin Roosevelt suggested using the 1871 painting by James M. Whistler entitled “Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist’s Mother.” More commonly known as “Whistler’s Mother,” the painting shows a frail and quiet woman sitting against a plain wall. Many consider Whistler one of the most important American artists of the nineteenth century.

Armed Forces Day - Armed Forces Day is a joint celebration of all five branches of the U.S. military: the Army, the Navy, the Coast Guard, the Marine Corps and the Air Force. The day honors all people currently serving in the U.S. armed forces. Armed Forces Day is often marked with parades, fly-overs, marches, and other public events.

National Maritime Day - May 22nd - Created by the United States Congress in 1933, National Maritime Day is a holiday that both honors and celebrates the Merchant Marine. (It also commemorates the first steam-powered transoceanic voyage when the American steamship Savannah set sail from the port of Savannah, GA on 1819.)

Ascension Day - Ascension Day is officially celebrated on a Thursday on the 40th day of Easter (or 39 days after Easter Sunday). In countries where it is a public holiday, Ascension Day is a free day for many workers. Many people take a long weekend off because the day falls on a Thursday. The Friday in between is usually quiet, particularly in shops and offices. Despite Christianity being a minority religion in Indonesia, Ascension Day is a public holiday and special services take place at churches throughout the country.

Ascension Day is sometimes called Father’s Day in Germany because many Protestant men have herrenpartien “outings” on this day. In Sweden, many people go out to the woods at 3 am or 4 am to hear the birds at sunrise. It is good luck if a cuckoo is heard from the east or west. These jaunts are called gökotta, or “early cuckoo morning”. In England, Ascension Day is associated with various water festivals ranging from Well Dressing in Derbyshire to the Planting of the “Penny Hedge” at Whitby, a small town in Yorkshire. Other customs may include “beating the bounds”. In the old days, it involved beating boys with willow branches as they were driven along parish boundaries, not only to purify them of evil but to teach them the limits of their parish. In modern times, it involves people in the locality walking around their farm, manorial, church or civil boundaries pausing as they pass certain trees, walls and hedges that denote the extent of the boundary to exclaim, pray and ritually 'beat' particular landmarks with sticks.

Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed every year on the last Monday in May. It honors those who died serving in the United States military. In the United States, Memorial Day weekend kicks off the start of the summer season and with Labor Day weekend ending the summer. Most government and businesses offices will be closed on this Day.

Magical World Festival Sat May 14 2022 at 10:00 am

Beauvoir, The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, 2244 Beach Blvd, Biloxi

The Magical World festival will be a festival of magical and mythical characters coming to life. Merlin, Tinkerbell, Thor, and other characters that patrons and the festival participants can think of. We will have knights, pirates, Vikings, and creatures from the mythical and magical realms. We will have food vendors, merchants, musical entertainment, and kids' activities.

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day

Sat, May 14, 1 PM – Sun, May 15

National Chocolate Chip celebrates one of the most popular ingredients in cooking - the chocolate chip. The origin of chocolate chips was said to be in the 1930s and was invented by a person called Ruth Graves in Wakefield. In her cookbook titled, Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House, Tried and True Recipes, she published a recipe of the name "Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies". It was said she accidentally discovered chocolate chips when she added chocolate to dough expecting them to melt and lose their shape, but ended up with drops of chocolate, giving her cookies a delicious texture switch between the cookie and the chocolate.

Sat May 21 National Maritime Day in USA

Maritime Day honors the SS Savannah which made the first trans-Atlantic crossing under steam power in 1819. The Post Office Department did issue a 3¢ stamp in 1944 that pictured the steamship Savannah (Scott 923). It was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic in 1819, 125 years earlier. Curiously, the stamp design does not include the name of the ship pictured.

The Post Office Department issued a stamp honoring Gold Star Mothers - mothers who have lost a child in service to the nation - in 1948. The stamps became available on September 21. Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa, who lost five sons when an enemy torpedo sank the cruiser Juneau on November 13, 1942, received the first sheet of stamps. The Gold Star Mothers stamp was the first in eight years to honor women or a women's organization. Until 1948, only ten US postage stamps had celebrated women.
https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/969/USA/

The World Celebrates Mother's Day