1975 | Washington DC
I’m old-school; I like to celebrate the 12th and the 22nd, and I have fond memories of two school holidays in February, ten days apart, so they never occurred on the same day of the week. For first few years of my own teaching, I enjoyed the old holidays before they were “normalized” — the two days off busted up the semester and we all came back with different kinds of pictures.
I like to keep the old dates in mind; if I can remember the year of George Washington’s birth, I don’t have to remember the square root of three…