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In 1868, three years after the Civil War ended, the leader of an organization of Union veterans established Decoration Day â as Memorial Day originally was known â as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. According to Utahâs Deseret News, one of the very first Memorial Day celebrations may have been even earlier, on May 1, 1865, when Black workmen gathered at a Charleston, South Carolina, racecourse and club that the Confederates had converted into an outdoor prison. That newspaper cited Yale University historian David W. Blight, who said the men reinterred the bodies of Union prisoners of war buried there and decorated their graves; later that day, a parade led by 3,000 Black schoolchildren carrying armloads of roses was held. In 1971, Congress established that Memorial Day would be observed as a national holiday on the last Monday in May.
If you blinked, you might have missed Jonathan Groff and his mother, Julie, riding on a tandem bike down Main Street during the Strasburg Memorial Day parade Monday morning.
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This Saturday will mark exactly two months since the death of former Lampeter-Strasburg High School and East Stroudsburg University basketball standout Ryan Smith. It had followed a long battle with Leukemia.
To honor his memory, a drive-thru bone marrow registration event will be held Saturday for those ages 18 to 44 at the Lampeter-Strasburg High School parking lot from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Lampeter-Strasburg YMCA will also hold a registration event Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
All that is required is to bring a smart phone to complete a digital registration process. No blood will be drawn. Instead, only a cheek swab kit will be self-administered. The whole process will take about 15 to 20 minutes.