Holidays that fall on a Sunday:
Holidays that fall on a Sunday:
While many holidays are celebrated during the work week, some religious holidays, such as Easter, are observed on a Sunday in either March or April. Because such holidays fall on a Sunday, they are only celebrated on Sunday, although from time to time they will be observed on a Monday as well.
The most popular of the Sunday holidays in Greenbelt, circa the 1940s, was Easter.
Each Easter, the town of Greenbelt celebrated with a town-wide Easter Egg Hunt that was held in a large field within the town (Neville). The field was divided into several sections based upon the age of the participants in that particular section of the field (Neville). There may have been a Greenbelt Easter Parade in addition to the town Easter Egg Hunt (Neville).
Another Easter tradition in the town of Greenbelt during the 1940s (although this is a tradition practiced nearly everywhere in the United States in modern times as well) was the purchase of a new Easter Outfit (Neville). Ann Neville, a librarian at the University of Texas at Austin, and a former Greenbelt resident of the early 1940s through 1950, still recalls her "dream" Easter outfit:
"One year--I was five, because I remember my Grandmother telling me 'That's not appropriate clothing for a five-year-old!'--I desperately wanted a red suit with a matching hat with a brim and a long black streamer down the back, and black patent leather shoes. I have no idea where this desire came from, but I used to dream about myself in it."
For more information about Easter, visit:
The History of
Easter