In its few short years as a state and federal holiday Juneteenth has become one of my favorite holidays. Besides its message, I like the way it comes at the start of the summer and two weeks prior to the Fourth of July. Since 2019 when it became a legal holiday it has fallen on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or (this year) Monday. Juneteenth itself is the nineteenth. I hope they never do the Holiday Monday thing where should the nineteenth fall on, say, a Wednesday they move it to Monday for a three day weekend. Like the Fourth of July, the holiday should always be on the nineteenth. There’s my 2 cents.

If one is in the New York/New Jersey area and looking for something to do tomorrow a guy with my initials will be speaking at Morristown National Historical Park tomorrow at 1:00 pm. My talk is one in a series this year commemorating the 90th anniversary of the site. Herbert Hoover created Morristown as the first national historical park on March 2, 1933 just before leaving office. My talk will be about Hans V. Kaltenborn and the tours he led for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in which he led Brooklynites across the country, the Alaskan and Hawaiian territories, South American, Africa, and Europe from 1915 to 1925. The event is free and open to the public. I can’t think of a place I’d rather be for Juneteenth weekend. Come and get some.