The first of March is a big day. It was the Roman New Year. It is the feast of St David, and so for the Welsh, a national holiday. In Iceland it is Beer Day. And, here in the United States it is National Pig Day, where we’re called to “accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place as one of man’s most intellectual and domesticated animals.”
On a more somber note, it is also the day in 1692 that Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and the slave Tituba were brought before local magistrates, beginning, what we know as the Salem witch trials.
In 1815 this is the day that Napoleon landed back on French soil having escaped his exile on Elba. On this day in 1932, another tragedy when young Charles Lindbergh was kidnaped, his body discovered two months later. In 1936 the Hoover Dam was completed. In 1953 Joseph Stalin had a stroke, dying four days later. In 1961, John F Kennedy launched the Peace Corps.
And, on this day in 1945, Winston Rodney, probably better known as Burning Spear was born in St Anne Parish, Jamaica…
As the old Rastafarian quote goes, “A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows every corner.”
Here’s someone who knows every corner…
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