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| My parents' wedding day in 1939 |
I read this in this morning’s The Writer’s
Almanac:
The founding meeting of the Republican Party
took place on this date in 1854, in a small schoolhouse in
Ripon, Wisconsin. Former members of the Whig Party gathered to voice their
opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854, which repealed the terms of the
Missouri Compromise, allowing settlers to decide for themselves if their
respective territories would be a free state or a slave state.
The Writer’s
Almanac is a dandy source for inspiration for writers like me who are stuck for
a topic. Today’s bit about the Republican Party reminded me that if it weren’t
for them I wouldn’t be here. You see, it’s like this: My Uncle Fred squired my
mother, his sister of course, to a party at the Queens, New York, Republican
Club, and that evening she met my father. I’ll never remember all the facts
about the dates and places for the founding of the G.O.P., but I do remember
the dates and places that, among other things, resulted in me.
Today is also
the anniversary if the day that Albert Einstein published his Theory of General
Relativity. 'Relatively' speaking this date is relatively good.
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