July Anniversaries/Celebrations … and the White House Vegetable Garden
The anniversary of free National Health Care in England (July 5, 1948)
National Ice Cream Month
National Recreation and Park Month
National Picnic Month
Captive Nations Week
Freedom Day
Independence Day
I dedicate my “quote of the month” to our First Lady, who had the common sense (all too uncommon) to put a vegetable garden on the White House lawn: “I know of nothing that makes one feel more complacent, in these July days, than to have his vegetables from his own garden…. It is a kind of declaration of independence.” (Charles Dudley Warner, author, My Summer in a Garden)