Less history-changing, but still self-evident aspects of life still abound.
In our Marietta subdivision, one self-important resident has raised the question of when to celebrate Halloween.
While every eight years or so the question comes of of whether it's proper to promote Halloween antics on a Sunday night (or even on a Wednesday when churches have mid-week services) but this year there's a different reason.
Marietta High School has a home football game on Friday night, Oct. 31, with the band to be dressed up in Halloween costumes and other spooky delights.
That's the reason for asking the subdivision board for a change in the Halloween schedule to Saturday night.
Halloween is a celebration of All Hallows Eve, the night prior to All Saint's Day. True, Presidents Day, Columbus Day and Veterans Day have been revised to Mondays to create three day weekends, it's hard to imagine changing any other holiday -- especially church holidays -- to another day.
After you move Halloween, then does Christmas eve come a couple of days later to allow extra shopping? Does New Year's eve evolve to a three day weekend bender?
If we do so, can we hold off on the eve of destruction forever? Okay, that's stretching it.
Let's not change the calendar for the benefit of a local school event. Halloween on Oct. 31 is one of those self-evident events.
