Have you ever wondered why we get a day off work on the first Monday of September to celebrate Labor Day?
The thought crossed our minds this past Friday as we were doing our radio show and letting folks know we would be back in the studio on Tuesday morning.
It seems kind of odd, doesn’t it? We celebrate working men and women– by not working.
There are 10 federal holidays in the US in most years (the exception being Inauguration Day). These are:
Labor Day was first celebrated as an official public holiday in 1887 in Oregon as a state holiday. By the time it became a federal, or nationwide, holiday in 1894, 30 total states were already celebrating the day.
The Unofficial End of Summer
But how did it start?
