Barbecues, a long weekend, store-wide sales, the unofficial start of summer. That’s what Memorial Day represents to many these days.
Lost in the shuffle is the actual act of remembering. Who is supposed to be recalled, and why ?
How and where did the holiday start ?
Although there are many other communities with their own claims, Waterloo is popularly considered to be the official birthplace of Memorial Day.
In this podcast we speak with Tanya Warren from the Memorial Day Museum in Waterloo (located in New York’s Finger Lakes region) about the origins of the Memorial Day we observe today.
At:
http://conversationsontheroad.com (Access June, 2007)
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