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MONTHLY THEME: FEBRUARY FUSION
February is a frosty, fleeting month of flirts and frivolities, when pancakes flip, Valentine hearts flutter, footballs fly, and fascinating folks were born.
February may be short on days but it's long on birthdays and themes (African American History Month, American Heart Month, Bake for Family Fun Month, Library Lovers Month, and National Bird Feeding Month. Whew!)
Let's fill February with fun and festivity. Have a look at the fab Feb phenoms featured below. Take someone home with you for his or her birthday! Our February Fusion may bring you fantastic company, fanciful fortune, and a fresh fondness for spring.
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Monday, February 1 - Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Writer, editor, lecturer.
Langston Hughes achieved fame as a poet during the burgeoning of the arts known as the Harlem Renaissance, but those who label him "a Harlem Renaissance poet" have restricted his fame to only one genre and decade. In addition to his work as a poet, Hughes was a novelist, columnist, playwright, and essayist, and though he is most closely associated with Harlem, his world travels influenced his writing in a profound way. Langston Hughes followed the example of Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of his early poetic influences, to become the second African American to earn a living as a writer. His long and distinguished career produced volumes of diverse genres and inspired the work of countless other African American writers.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Langston Hughes
February 2 - James Joyce
James Joyce (1882-1941). Irish novelist, poet.
James Joyce was born in Ireland, the eldest of ten surviving children. He was educated by Jesuits at Clogowes Wood College and at Belvedere College before going on to University College, then located on St Stephen’s Green, where he studied modern languages.
He was a stream-of-consciousness pioneer and author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914), Ulysses (1922) -- which was banned in the U.S until a court decision in its favour in 1933, and Finnegan's Wake (1939)
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by James Joyce
Wednesday, February 3 - Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Writer.
Gertrude Stein is regarded as one of the most remarkable writers of the twentieth century. Reacting against the naturalistic conventions of nineteenth-century fiction, she developed an abstract manner of expression that was a counterpart in language to the work of the Post-Impressionists and Cubists in the visual arts. Her radical approach was admired and emulated by other authors of her era, including Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder and Sherwood Anderson, and served as a key inspiration for many modernist writers.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library System by Gertrude Stein
Thursday, February 4 - Rosa Lee Parks
Rosa Lee Parks (1913-2005) Civil rights activist.
Born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus spurred on a city-wide boycott and helped launch nation-wide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.
Rosa Parks received many accolades during her lifetime including the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP's highest award. She also received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award. On September 9, 1996 President Bill Clinton awarded Rosa Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given by the U.S. executive branch. The next year, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award given by the U.S. legislative branch. In 1999, Time magazine named Rosa Parks one of the 20 most influential people of the 20th century.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library on Rosa Parks
Saturday, February 6 - Bob Marley
Bob Marley (1945-1981). Musician.
Bob Marley was one of the most charismatic and challenging performers of our time and his music could have been created from only one source: the street culture of Jamaica. Bob was a hero figure, in the classic mythological sense. His departure from this planet came at a point when his vision of One World, One Love -- inspired by his belief in Rastafari -- was beginning to be heard and felt. The last Bob Marley and the Wailers tour in 1980 attracted the largest audiences at that time for any musical act in Europe.
Bob was then invited to the United Nations in New York to receive the organisation's Medal of Peace. At the end of the year Bob also visited Africa for the first time, going initially to Kenya and then on to Ethiopia, spiritual home of Rastafari.
Click to see books and music in the Tappan Library System on Bob Marley
Sunday, February 7 - Eubie Blake
Eubie Blake. (1883-1993). Musician.
Eubie Blake was one of the most important figures in early-20th-century American music, and one whose longevity made him a storehouse of the history of ragtime and early jazz music and culture. Born in Baltimore in 1883, Blake began playing piano professionally when he was 16; he wrote his first composition, "Charleston Rag" around the same time. Blake collaborated with Andy Razaf (on "Memories of You"), Henry Creamer, and other writers, composing more than 350 songs. Shuffle Along was the musical sensation of 1921--guaranteeing Blake his place in music history. The musical was significant not only for single-handedly reviving the black musical, but also for helping launch several young performers and composers on their successful careers. Among these notables were Josephine Baker, Florence Mills, Paul Robeson, and William Grant Still. Many songs such as "I'm Just Wild About Harry," "Love Will Find a Way," and "In Honeysuckle Time" became great hits, were recorded dozens of times, and retain their freshness and charm more than 80 years later.
Click to see books and music in the Tappan Library System on Eubie Blake
Monday, February 8 - John Grisham
John Grisham (b. 1955) Novelist.
Born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, his early ambition was to play professional baseball, but he later studied accountancy at Mississippi State University (1975–7), and then law at the University of Mississippi (1978–81), after which he practised criminal and civil law. Also interested in politics, he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives (1983–90). His first novel, the crime thriller A Time To Kill (1989), was followed by a string of best-sellers, many of which have been made into successful films, and include The Firm (1991), The Rainmaker (1995), and The Testament (1999). Later novels include The Brethren (2000), The Last Juror (2004), and The Broker (2005). His first work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, appeared in 2006.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by John Grisham
Or download Grisham's audiobook - Ford County.
Tuesday, February 9 - Alice Walker
Alice Walker (b.1944). Poet, essayist, and novelist.
Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of sharecroppers Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. She attended Spelman College and received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.
Walker has won numerous awards and honors, including the Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, a Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Mendocino, California.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Alice Walker
Or download Walker's ebook - Sent by Earth
Wednesday, February 10 - Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), Writer.
Born in Moscow, Boris was the son of talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy's works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Pasternak's education began in a German Gymnasium in Moscow and was continued at the University of Moscow. Pasternak took up the study of musical composition for six years from 1904 to 1910. By 1912 he had renounced music as his calling in life and went to the University of Marburg, Germany, to study philosophy. After four months there and a trip to Italy, he returned to Russia and decided to dedicate himself to literature.
Pasternak first gained a place as a leading poet and among his Russian contemporaries. A collection of four short stories was published next. In 1957 Doktor Zhivago, Pasternak's only novel - except for the earlier "novel in verse", Spektorsky (1926) - first appeared in an Italian translation and has been acclaimed by some critics as a successful attempt at combining lyrical-descriptive and epic-dramatic styles. Pasternak lived in Peredelkino, near Moscow, until his death in 1960.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Boris Pasternak
Thursday, February 11 - Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon. (1917-2007). Screenwriter, Novelist.
Sidney Sheldon was born in Chicago. After spending six months at Northwestern University during the Depression era, Sheldon dropped out to support his family, making money as a radio joke-writer and a movie house usher, before moving to Hollywood to become a writer, eventually landing a $17 a week job as a script editor, in 1937.
In 1959 he won a Tony Award for the Best Musical with 'Redhead', as well as becoming an extraordinarily prolific scriptwriter for such shows as 'I Dream of Jeannie' and 'Patty Duke'. Sheldon’s first novel, 'The Naked Face', was described by the New York Times as “the best first mystery of the year”, and was the first in a seemingly endless production of bestsellers, including 'The Other Side of Midnight' (1974) and 'The Best Laid Plans'(1997). He also won a 1947 Academy Award.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Sidney Sheldon
Or download Sheldon's ebook - Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Friday, February 12 - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln. (1809-1865).
The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he sketched his life:
"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all."
Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. His law partner said of him, "His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest."
He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860.
As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
Click to see works in the Tappan Library by and about Abraham Lincoln
Saturday, February 13 - Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon. (1903-1989). Belgian mystery writer, creator of Inspector Maigret.
Georges Simenon was close to his father, but estranged from his mother for most of his life. Early accounts of his life contain inconsistencies because he told different versions of the same events to different interviewers. Even his twenty-seven volumes of autobiographical writings, including two novels, a diary, and a series of “intimate” memoirs, are unreliable sources.
In 1930, Simenon began to take his work more seriously and signed a contract with the publisher Fayard for a series of detective novels about a Parisian policeman, Jules Maigret. Most of the first nineteen books were written over the next three years, largely on board his boat, the Ostrogoth, moored near Delfzijl in the Netherlands. In later years, Simenon claimed never to have done any research on police procedure, and never to have set foot inside the Quai des Orfèvres, the main police station in Paris. In point of fact, he attended a series of lectures on forensics at the University of Liège in connection with some articles he wrote as a young reporter.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Georges Simenon
Monday, February 15 - Susan B Anthony
Susan B Anthony. (1820-1906). Suffragist.
Susan B. Anthony is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organizations.
In 1848 Susan B. Anthony was working as a teacher in Canajoharie, New York and became involved with the teacher’s union when she discovered that male teachers had a monthly salary of $10.00, while the female teachers earned $2.50 a month. Her parents and sister Marry attended the 1848 Rochester Woman’s Rights Convention held August 2.
Anthony’s experience with the teacher’s union, temperance and antislavery reforms, and Quaker upbringing, laid fertile ground for a career in women’s rights reform to grow.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library on Susan B Anthony
Wednesday, February 17 - Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell (b.1930). British mystery writer.
Ruth Rendell, aka Barbara Vine, was born in London, and educated at Loughton County High School, Essex. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has received many awards for her work, including the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger (lifetime achievement award), and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence.
She is the author of a series of many novels featuring Detective Chief Inspector Wexford, set in Kingsmarkham, a fictional English town. She also writes novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. These books include a winner of the Crime Writers' Association Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction.
Her two books of collected short stories were published in 1987 and 2008. Many of her novels and short stories have been successfully adapted for television. Ruth Rendell was awarded a CBE in 1996. A Life Peerage was conferred on her in 1997 as Baroness Rendell of Babergh.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Ruth Rendell
Or download the Rendell ebook - Thirteen Steps Down
Thursday, February 18 - Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (b. 1931). Writer.
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, in Lorain (Ohio), the second of four children in a black working-class family. Displayed an early interest in literature. Studied humanities at Howard and Cornell Universities, followed by an academic career at Texas Southern University, Howard University, Yale, and since 1989, a chair at Princeton University. She has also worked as an editor for Random House, a critic, and given numerous public lectures, specializing in African-American literature. She made her debut as a novelist in 1970, soon gaining the attention of both critics and a wider audience for her epic power, unerring ear for dialogue, and her poetically-charged and richly-expressive depictions of Black America. A member since 1981 of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has been awarded a number of literary distinctions, among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Toni Morrison
Or download the Morrison ebook - A Mercy
Friday, February 19 - Amy Tan
Amy Tan (b.1952). Writer.
Amy Ruth Tan was born in Oakland, California. Her father was a Chinese-born Baptist minister; her mother was the daughter of an upper-class family in Shanghai, China. Throughout much of her childhood, Tan struggled with her parent's desire to hold onto Chinese traditions and her own longings to become more Americanized. Her parents wanted Tan to become a neurosurgeon, while she wanted to become a fiction writer.
Tan majored in English at San Jose State, in California, in the early 1970s rather than fulfill her mother's expectations of becoming a surgeon. After graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, she began a career as a technical writer. She turned to fiction writing, having gained inspiration from her reading of Louise Erdrich's novel of Native American family life, Love Medicine.
Amy is known for her lyrically written tales of emotional conflict between Chinese American mothers and daughters separated by generational and cultural differences.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Amy Tan
Or download the Tan audiobook - The Moon Lady
Saturday, February 20 - Chinese New Year
Just what is Chinese New Year? There's actually a lot more to it than lion dances and firecrackers, although these two pieces of tradition are integral and more visible, Chinese New Year to China is like Christmas to the West. In essence, Chinese New Year is spending time with family, gift giving and, the all important, food-fest.
When is Chinese New Year this year? The upcoming Chinese New Year falls on February 14, 2010, when we'll be ringing in the Year of the Tiger.
(Chinese New Year begins according to the Chinese calendar which consists of both Gregorian and lunar-solar calendar systems. Because the track of the new moon changes from year to year, Chinese New Year can begin anytime between late January and mid-February.)
Events in NYC to celebrate Chinese New Year!
Click to see works in the Tappan Library on the Chinese New Year.
Sunday, February 21
Erma Bombeck. (1927-1996). Writer.
One day in 1964, Erma walked into the office of the editor of the local paper, the Kettering-Oakwood Times. "I'd like to do a column for you," she said. Simple honesty won the day. The editor fell for her charming intro and offered three dollars a week, and with a handshake Erma Bombeck took a giant step on the road to fame and fortune.
From the beginning, professionalism marked Erma's work. She instinctively knew what good column writing entailed. Hook 'em with the lead. Hold 'em with laughter. Exit with a quip they won't forget. She turned out her columns in a cramped bedroom, the typewriter balanced on a plank suspended between a couple of cinder blocks.
As more newspapers signed her on, Erma was asked to lecture in the new cities. The thousands of women (and a surprising number of men) who turned out to hear her speak, applauding her every poke at their lives, thrilled and overwhelmed her. Their laughter rolled in great waves through the auditorium and confirmed that at long last they had found someone who understood them.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Erma Bombeck
Monday, February 22 - George Washington
George Washington. (1732 -1799).
Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman.
He pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him.
From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. But like his fellow planters, Washington felt himself exploited by British merchants and hampered by British regulations. As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions.
When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years.
He realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
Washington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President.
Click to see works in the Tappan Library by and about George Washington
Tuesday, February 23 - WEB DuBois
WEB DuBois, (1868-1963). American civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, scholar, and a founder of the NAACP.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Mass., where he grew up. During his youth he did some newspaper reporting. In 1884 he graduated as valedictorian from high school. He got his bachelor of arts from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., in 1888, having spent summers teaching in African American schools in Nashville's rural areas. In 1888 he entered Harvard University as a junior, took a bachelor of arts cum laude in 1890, and was one of six commencement speakers. From 1892 to 1894 he pursued graduate studies in history and economics at the University of Berlin on a Slater Fund fellowship. He served for 2 years as professor of Greek and Latin at Wilberforce University in Ohio.
In 1891 Du Bois got his master of arts and in 1895 his doctorate in history from Harvard. His dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870, was published as No. 1 in the Harvard Historical Series. This important work has yet to be surpassed. In 1896 he married Nina Gomer, and they had two children.
In 1896-1897 Du Bois became assistant instructor in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. There he conducted the pioneering sociological study of an urban community, published as The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899). These first two works assured Du Bois's place among America's leading scholars.
Du Bois's life and work were an inseparable mixture of scholarship, protest activity, and polemics. All of his efforts were geared toward gaining equal treatment for black people in a world dominated by whites and toward marshaling and presenting evidence to refute the myths of racial inferiority
Click to see works on and by WEB DuBois in the Tappan Library System.
Wednesday, February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm. Librarian, (1786-1859). Writer, literary historian, librarian,
With his brother, Jacob Grimm, wrote Grimm's Fairy Tales.
The brothers first attended school in Kassel, Germany, and then they began legal studies at the University of Marburg. While there, however, the inspiration of a professor named Friedrich von Savigny awakened in them an interest in past cultures. In 1808 Jakob was named court librarian to the King of Westphalia in Wilhelmshöhe, Germany. In 1816 he became librarian in Kassel, where Wilhelm had been employed since 1814. They were to remain there until 1830, when they obtained positions at the University of Göttingen.
Following their own interests in folklore and legends, the brothers brought out their first collection of tales, Kinder-und Hausmärchen (Tales of Children and the Home), in 1812. These tales were collected by recording stories told by peasants and villagers. Wilhelm put them into written form and gave them a pleasant, childlike style. The brothers added many scholarly footnotes on the tales' sources and different versions.
In addition, the Grimms worked on editing existing pieces of other folklore and early literature. Between 1816 and 1818 they published two volumes of Deutsche Sagen (German Legends). At about the same time they published a volume of studies in the history of early literature, Altdeutsche Wälder (Old German Forests).
Click to see books in the Tappan Library for the Brothers Grimm
Thursday, February 25 - Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler (b. 1975). Comedian.
Born in Livingston, New Jersey, to a Jewish father and a Mormon mother, Chelsea Handler is the youngest of six children.
Chelsea was the star of Oxygen's Girls Behaving Badly and starred in The Chelsea Handler Show on E!. She has costarred in several independent films, including Steamroom and National Lampoon's Cattle Call, and has made guest appearances on Comedy Central's Reno 911!, ABC's My Wife and Kids, Fox's The Bernie Mac Show and The Practice. She is a regular commentator on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Click to see books in the Tappan Library by Chelsea Handler
Or download the Handler audiobook - Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Friday, February 26 - Johnny Cash
Johhny Cash (1932-2003). Musician.
Born in Kingsland, Ark., Johnny Cash was born John R. Cash, one of seven children belonging to Ray and Carrie Rivers Cash. When John was 3 years old, his father took advantage of a new Roosevelt farm program and moved his young family to Dyess Colony in
northeast Arkansas. There the Cash family farmed 20 acres of cotton and other seasonal crops, and young John worked alongside his parents and siblings in the fields.
Music was an integral part of everyday life in the Cash household. John soaked up a variety of musical influences ranging from his mother's folk songs and hymns to the work songs from the fields and nearby railroad yards. He absorbed these sounds like sponge absorbs water. In later years Cash would draw from his life in Arkansas for inspiration: "Pickin' Time," "Five Feet High and Rising" and "Look at Them Beans" are all reflections on Cash's early life.
In 1980, at the age of 48, Johnny Cash became the youngest living inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bestowed its honor on him in 1995, making him one of a handful of country artists in both organizations.
Click to see books and music in the Tappan Library System on Johnny Cash
Saturday, February 27 - Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson (1897-1993). Opera.
Marian Anderson was born to a warm, loving, hardworking family on Webster Street in South Philadelphia. She first began singing in the choir of Union Baptist church, learning all the parts from soprano to bass, a discipline that helped to develop her extraordinary range. She was 15 when she received her first formal lesson.
She debuted at the New York Philharmonic on August 26 , 1925 and scored an immediate success, also with the critics. In 1928 , she sang for the first time at Carnegie Hall. Her reputation was further advanced by her tour though Europe in the early 1930's . The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius dedicated his Solitude to her.
In 1955 , Anderson broke the color barrier by becoming the first African-American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera . On that occasion, she sang the part of Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi 's Un ballo in maschera . In 1958 she was officially designated delegate to the United Nations , a formalization of her role as "goodwill ambassador" of the U.S. she played earlier, and in 1972 she was awarded the UN Peace Prize.
Click to see books and music in the Tappan Library System on Marian Anderson
Sunday, February 28 - Gateway to Spring
The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Click to see works at the Tappan Library on SPRING! Yes. It's coming soon. Hooray.
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Friday, February 5 - Hank Aaron
Sunday, February 14 - Valentine's Day
Tuesday, February 16 - Pancake Week