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1.
September First
Since
it was an R month
September 1 was the first day
a person could eat oysters.
TO THE BYZANTINES, SEPTEMBER
1 WAS the anniversary of the creation of the world. For citizens of
Poland, it was the beginning of the end of the world in 1939 when the
Nazis invaded.
The poet W.H. Auden thought it was the end of a world, too,
the end of a low dishonest decade, when he penned September
1, 1939 upon hearing the news of Nazi tanks smashing Polish cavalry.
September 1 was also the anniversary of the death of Louis
the Fourteenth of France. Mission San Luis Obispo was founded on September
1. Aaron Burr was acquitted of treason on this day, and Martha, the
last passenger pigeon in America, died in the Cincinnati zoo.
King Idris I of Libya was overthrown by Moammar Kaddafi
on September 1. And three television shows were aired for the last timeI
Dream of Jeannie, Gunsmoke, and
Skipper!, the Ward Craven vehicle.
Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down off the Kamchatka
Peninsula by Soviet MIGs on September 1. And the remains of the RMS
Titantic were finally discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Since it was an R month, September 1 wasthe
first day one can eat oysters. And there were two notable birthdays
on September 1those of Dr. Phil, the television psychiatrist,
and Mohammed Ata, an unknown Egyptian living in the United States.
September 1 was alsoand fortunatelythe annual
date of The Blessing of the Salamanders and Gnutes Festival
held at Mission Carmel.
This particular Friday was bright blue. audemars piguet replica The fog had neglected
to come in as an offshore wind ruled the day. The temperature was a
breezy seventy-degrees and local children from the parish and their
parents were getting ready for the small parade that would start in
a matter of hours. The padre would lead the children, all brightly dressed,
some in gnute and salamander costumes, down to the creeks where holy
water and blessings would be bestowed upon the amphibian population.
On the mission grounds food tents and craft tables were
being set. Mariachis were warming up on the small wooden stage that
would be shared by local and out-of-town performers. Ward Craven and
Ksen would perform Episode 24 from Skipper! as they had
every year, and last minute entry, Coast Guard volunteer Ed
Mister and the Orange Seamen, were collecting their instruments
near the stage where they would spoof all over everyone.
Such was September First.
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