Thursday, May 1, 2008

A year ago, part II (calendar year: International Workers' Day - Labor Day)


A year ago according to the secular calendar I was pondering labor and lilies of the valley.

And, in another post, honoring Mother Jones.

Later in the month, I posted a May 1-related post I had promised back then, on the origins of Labor Day and the link between labor and lilies of the valley in the land of my birth.

2 comments:

Ken said...

Went back and read about Mother Jones. Knew some of it, but not enough. I love to imagine if she'd been around now, facing off against a WalMart. Or a Bear Stearns. Or an oil company. Or....

johnieb said...

The Gorn Biography is in my stack, somewhere. Still slogging through Miles's *Image As Insight*, which is excellent.