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The minor holidays (Columbus Day, Armistice Day, "Presidents" Day)

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Back in the Midwest we used to call the minor holidays (Columbus Day, Armistice Day, "Presidents" Day) postal holidays because the only thing closed on those days were post offices and big banks. Now we are in Boston and they seem to be major days off, with schools closed and everything.

So here's my my question, which better reflects the US in general, Wisconsin, where they are pretty much ignored or Massachusetts, where most businesses and schools are closed?
 
persia said:
Back in the Midwest we used to call the minor holidays (Columbus Day, Armistice Day, "Presidents" Day) postal holidays because the only thing closed on those days were post offices and big banks. Now we are in Boston and they seem to be major days off, with schools closed and everything.

So here's my my question, which better reflects the US in general, Wisconsin, where they are pretty much ignored or Massachusetts, where most businesses and schools are closed?
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Actually, Presidents Day, AKA Washington's Birthday, is a federal holiday. So, federal and local government employees have off, along with banks, schools, etc. I wouldn't call presidents day a minor holiday. Now Columbus day, that's a joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States
 
persia said:
Back in the Midwest we used to call the minor holidays (Columbus Day, Armistice Day, "Presidents" Day) postal holidays because the only thing closed on those days were post offices and big banks. Now we are in Boston and they seem to be major days off, with schools closed and everything.

So here's my my question, which better reflects the US in general, Wisconsin, where they are pretty much ignored or Massachusetts, where most businesses and schools are closed?
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hmmm..as a kid I remember it was Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday. I honestly cannot recall if we got either day off though. Now it's just president's day, and our school district here in Cincinnati (well, a suburb almost in Cinci), gets the DAY off. My nieces and nephew in Buffalo get the WEEK off, which I found surprising--a whole week for President's?

Columbus Day is a NOT a day off for our schools, Armistice Day? I cannot remember the last time I've even HEARD Armistice Day mentioned. I'm thinking we get MLK day off too (though I could be mistaken). Columbus Day, Veterans Day, and President's day are a gubment holiday/bank holiday, but no one else is closed. I assume that is what you meant.
 
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Here in MD, Columbus Day has always been the holiday where parents have the day off and kids don't.

And schools would lose President's Day holiday as a makeup day if they had too many snow days.
 
Happy thanksgiving.

No minor for me. Columbus Day in the US is Thanksgiving in Canada.

Hope of my Canadian friends and family are having a good weekend.

I am up for the weekend too. Going to get my turkey fix on.
 
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In that case, in California, there would be no holidays, because many stores are open on Christmas and Thanksgiving too....

I agree with "Federal Holidays."
 
Ron98GT said:
I don't understand your reasoning? If you base the major holidays on the day retailers have off, then you would only have Thanksgiving and Christmas day.

I still content major holidays are federal holidays:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States
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You misunderstood my tongue in cheek response.

If you ask a retailer what is a "major holiday", it is any day that they stand to make money. Christmas, cha ching! Major holiday. Sweetest Day, ching, sort of major holiday. President's day, not so much .
 
Of those days mentioned, the only day our schools or my work is off is Presidents day. My company used to give Good Friday off as one of it's ten holiday days each year, but a few years ago they replaced it with MLK day. I often wonder what the late, great Reverend Martin Luther King would have thought about that. :ponder:

Kurt
 
Some of those are kind of local. Columbus Day is big in places with large Italian populations. MLK is bigger in the South. Armistice Day (11-11 for the unfamiliar) is a good day for school football. And I bet you haven't heard of Pioneer Day. Big deal in Utah. 7-24 when Brigham Young and the initial party declared ,"This is the place." and entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

Jim
 
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DeniseM said:
In that case, in California, there would be no holidays, because many stores are open on Christmas and Thanksgiving too....

I agree with "Federal Holidays."
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Again, I still think it depends on who you ask…

If it's when schools have off, it is Christmas Day, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hoshannah (our school system gets both off-and we are also jewish, hence, to US they are MAJOR holidays), President's Day, Veteran's Day, New Year's Day…

If you ask a postal carrier or federal employee, it's "which federal holidays do I get off work". (and yes, I used to be a DOD employee, so we liked them all!)

If you ask a retailer (not the employee, the company), it's which days do we get the most bang for our buck..Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Easter, Sweetest Day, 4th of July..

If you ask ME, United Nations Day should be a national holiday. October 24th. Please go out and celebrate it. (it is also my birthday! :D )
 
In response to the original question:
So here's my my question, which better reflects the US in general, Wisconsin, where they are pretty much ignored or Massachusetts, where most businesses and schools are closed?
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The answer is Federal Holidays.
 
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Passepartout said:
Some of those are kind of local. Columbus Day is big in places with large Italian populations. MLK is bigger in the South. Armistice Day (11-11 for the unfamiliar) is a good day for school football. And I bet you haven't heard of Pioneer Day. Big deal in Utah. 7-24 when Brigham Young and the initial party declared ,"This is the place." and entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1947.

Jim
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Of course you mean 1847. :D
 
Believe it or not, there was a time when most retailers were closed on Sunday... gasp! :eek:

The word, holiday, is derived from the Old English, "hāligdæg," or Holy Day.
 
You all are just missing the best of the best WEEKS OFF...

Jersey Week - which is the week election day (Tues) is in Plus NJEA Teacher's Conference (Thurs & Fri schools closed) with Mon and Wed being sick days.

Who else has that WHOLE week off - but NJ? ... Disney is the favorite vacation destination.
 
Calling Presidents' Day a minor holiday is a disgrace. When I was a kid in Grammar School we celebrated Lincoln's Birthday on the 12th of February and Washington's Birthday on the 22nd. Teachers would use all day the day before the 12th and 22nd discussing Lincoln and Washington. Now they are lumped into President's day and nobody seems to care, most likely our Schools.

George
 
Most Northeastern states have the full week off of Presidents' Day. It's usually called Winter Recess and travel to Eastern destinations (Florida resorts and cruises) can be very expensive.
 
Trudyt623 said:
Most Northeastern states have the full week off of Presidents' Day. It's usually called Winter Recess and travel to Eastern destinations (Florida resorts and cruises) can be very expensive.
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In the part of California where I grew up, that week off was/is often called "ski week," since people use it to head to the slopes. :D
 
Ron98GT said:
I don't understand your reasoning? If you base the major holidays on the day retailers have off, then you would only have Thanksgiving and Christmas day.

I still contend major holidays are federal holidays, although I don't get Columbus Day off and I work for the County Government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States
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Here in the mid west Easter would be added to the list with Christmas and Thanksgiving. Almost all stores are closed those three days.

Where I work, we get 10 paid holidays a year. Up to this year we were always given three of them as floating holidays (President's Day, Columbus Day, and Veteran's Day). This gave us in effect three additional vacation days. Next year that all changes. We will have those days off and only have a floating holiday if one of the federal holidays that we are paid for falls on a weekend. Which July 4th will be in 2015.

We will have to change our travel patterns now in order to take advantage of getting an extra day out of a vacation and start traveling on these holidays that are not as popular for family travel.
 
Mister Sir said:
Believe it or not, there was a time when most retailers were closed on Sunday... gasp! :eek:
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Sounds like Texas. It's been many, many, years since I've been to Texas (mid 80's for a job interview in Dallas), but I still remember everything being closed on Sunday. They even quit selling meat in the grocery stores after 5 or 6 PM on weekdays, :eek:. I like Vegas, it's a 24/7 town, for the most part. :whoopie:
 
dioxide45 said:
Here in the mid west Easter would be added to the list with Christmas and Thanksgiving. Almost all stores are closed those three days.
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Easter, what's that. I don't think anybody recognizes that as any kind of holiday in Vegas.

We used to get off for Halloween. Actually, we got off for Nevada Day (the day Nevada became a state, so the union could get our silver), but then they changed it to the last Friday of October and screwed the whole thing up :bawl: We work a 4 day work week, Monday thru Thursday, so I miss that holiday.
 
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Columbus Day Holiday


In 1937,

President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Columbus Day a national holiday, largely as a result of intense lobbying by the Knights of Columbus, an influential Catholic fraternal benefits organization.

Originally observed every October 12, it was fixed
to the second Monday in October in 1971.

Columbus Day remembers Christopher Columbus'
arrival to the Americas on October 12, 1492.
 
They're all major for me! My building dictates which ones we observe by locking the building and turning the AC off. They're pretty damn liberal too because they also include King Kamahamaha Day and Prince Kuhio Day. Those holidays cost me a fortune because I pay all 10 of my employees for holidays! That along with the days rent on my office and the lost revenue costs me a lot of $$$!

I do have very happy and loyal employees though!
 
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