HOLIDAYS AND PARTIES

Enjoy your holidays with other Webfolk, and join a CyberParty! There are several sites that allow you to communicate with others electronically on special days and holidays. If you're confused about what holiday you should be celebrating, check out CalendarLand for a wonderful selection of special days and calendars.

Making Your Holiday Electronic Message Special

The The Electric Postcard, Internet Greetings Cards, Volition, Blue Mountain Arts and Build A Card allow you to send a special electronic message to your Internet friends. If it's flowers you'd prefer, there is always the Virtual Flowers website where you can send a free "virtual" bouquet to someone you love.

For those interested in e-mail attachments for the holidays, check out Pocket Internet Greeting Cards page [formerly The Pad]. If you don't have any friends or family and are desperate for someone to mail to, you can always consult Make A Friend on the Web or at worst publically accessible mailing lists.

If you are having a birthday soon and would like to know who else was born on your special day, check out Brittanica's Lives. And for those who just can't remember when a holiday or special event in coming up, there is always the free Internet Reminder Service to keep you right on track.

And if you still forget to remember a loved one, you can seek help for the best excuses from the Evil Little Brother Excuse Generator. Or use the Cyrano site to help you write a love letter OR dump your beloved electronically.

If you have an ax to grind with someone, check out the automatic complaint letter generator. And perhaps to balance out your karma, follow it with a kind comment from the Surrealistic Compliment Generator. You'll surely be consider the wit of the Internet. Right.

Holiday Links

4th of July - America's Birthday For the patriotic, includes an audio message from Al Gore, a wav of the Star Spangled Banner, historial documents and government sites. This site is based at Citylink - a project to interface the cities of the world.

4th of July - copy of the Declaration of Independence signed on July 4, 1776. This document bears three signatures from my home state of New Hampshire.

Arbor Day - The National Arbor Day Foundation has info about this day, planting and caring for tress, and more.

April Fools on the Net - collection of top 20 fools, foolish links and foolish history. You're a fool if you miss it.

Birthday - World Birthday Web- your birthday listing can be entered for free, and in return you get greetings from cyberspace folk from all over the world.

Christmas - Welcome to Santa's Workshop - send a letter to Santa and reason some of the traditional Christmas texts, like A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas.

Christmas 'round the World(WideWeb) - this award winning site includes links to Santa sites around the world.

Christmas - traditions in France and Canada.

Columbus Day - article on this explorer entitled "Man or Myth" from the online exhibit by the Library of Congress entitled: 1492 - An Ongoing Voyage.

Easter - this site explains in detail how to make Ukranian Easter eggs. Do we have to buy the eggs in Urkrania?

Easter Eggs - the Easter Egg Archive. Did you know that an "easter egg" is a geek term for secret tricks and features that programmers bury into their major software releases? Well, find out more about this yolk!

Easter Egg Hunt - another site sponsored by Citylink, hunt for easter eggs on their pages.

Easter in Bulgaria - traditions at Easter in Bulgaria, and Macedonia regions. Find out why red eggs are important.

Fathers Day - "Honoring our Fathers" by George Parks at MenWeb.

Simply Father's Day - Send an electronic card to your Father, suggestions for gifts, and other Father's Day Links.

GroundHog Day - learn about Punxsutawney Phil and why his shadow gazing exploits are important.

GroundHog Day - visit the Chamber of Commerce Home Page in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. These are the folks that Phil the Groundhog hangs out with. Or is that digs in with?

Halloween-O-Webbery - Hope you like pumpkin orange when you visit this holiday haunt. Treats, spooky places, mystic games,the dark side of the web, sounds, costume and party ideas, and Halloween history.

Labor Day - Celebrate the joys of labor at this labor solidarity site.

Leap Year - Feb 29th - Page devoted to this unusual day.

Martin Luther King's Birthday - includes links to the MLK paper's project at Stanford, and info about the King estate and Center.

Mother's Day - a tribute to Mother's from Tessa Sundaram.

Mother's Day - In honor of the mother's of Oklahoma City, Women's Leadership Online has organized this projectas part of their "Love Creates/Hate Kills" Campaign.

Memorial Day - visit Arlington Cemetary and the tomb of the unknown soldier via this virtual connection.

Memorial Day - this site features monuments and memorials in DC, including a nice pic of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. From the Washington DC Recreation page.

New Years - First Night New York - Lobby of the official website for New York's New Years Party. Includes a clickable map of sites to see, how to get there, and more.

New Years - First Night College - Penn State brings you info on their activities, plus goodies about what's happening in cyberspace.

President's Day - the inaugural addresses of all the US Presidents, from Washington to Clinton.

President's Day - visit the White House and leave a holiday greeting.

St. Patrick's Day - a Wee Bit O' Fun from the folks at nando.net. Find out more about St. Patrick, snakes, leprechauns, and why we wear 'the green'.

St Patrick's Day - at Lucky Leprechaun's Lane you can visit a virtual Dublin street, read some lucky limericks,and learn how to kiss the blarney stone.

Thanksgiving - check out America's Homepage, at Plymouth Massachusetts. Read their "true story of the first Thanksgiving, snag some New England style recipes, and take a virtual tour of Plimoth Plantations.

Thanksgiving - - the First Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1676 from the governing council of Charleston MA.

Thanksgiving - find out about the Pilgrims and Provincetown (MA) past. Includes info on the landing of the Mayflower, the signing of the Mayflower Compact, and the storm that changed Provincetown. This is a great place to visit if you ever find your way to Massachusetts.

Valentine's Day - gift giving ideas and other fun Valentine sites from Hot Topics.

Valentine's Day - with a valentine wish page, songs of love and Cupid's links, this Invision site is bound to put you in an amorous mood. From Invision.

Festivals, Parties, Special Days Etc

All Nations Cultural Festival - Minnesota gathering that celebrates all cultures and nations through music and entertainment - a yearly event.

Burning Man Archives - these folks come, camp and burn every year at Black Rock Desert, Nevada. If you don't know about the Burning Man, I suggest you visit this web site as soon as possible.

Canadian Folk Festivals - listing of Canadian folk festivals, folk clubs on the web, and folks in the folk industry. Fine folks.

Festivals and Holidays - collection of same, world-wide and ancient links too!

Festivals, Parties and Gatherings - from Tribal Voice, a nice listing of places to celebrate.

Holidays on the Net - Good links, great graphics. Run over here and check it out!

HotSpots for 1996 - Ten of the most exciting events occurring in 1996, all over the world.

Lupercalia - ancient Roman celebration in the Ides of February (Feb 15).

Mardi Gras - direct to the French Quarter, this site gives you details on this historic New Orleans area, along with some freebies and sound samplings.

Millenium Resources - that's the Year 2000, for those of you who are calendarly challenged. Is that a word?

One World Global Calendar - multicultural educational resource for festivals, celebrations and holydays.

Plan Your Epitaph Day - April 6 and Nov 1st, created by Lance Hardie.

Scribe Renaissance Fair List - U.S. only, compiled by the staff of Scribe and Uproots Magazine.

Spring Break - Everything you ever wanted to know about Spring Break! History, contests, travel and postings. Gotta see.

World Wide Holidays and Events - with search capabilities.

Culture Specific

Chanukah - a site celebrating this Jewish holiday. Also spelled: Hanukkah.

Children's Day - Day in Japan to pray for the good health and happiness of children.

Cinco de Mayo - a day celebrated by Mexican and Chicano communities as a symbol of Mexican unity.

Japan - month by month listing of annual festivals, celebrations and events. Learn more about the historial and religious traditions in this beautiful country.

Kwanzaa - An African-American spiritual holiday started in 1966.

Purim on the Net - Jewish holiday

Tibet - although celebrated in southern Australia, the Gyoto Monks bring Tibet along when they have a special performance for the spring equinox (Celebration of Spring). Visit this site to learn more!

Turning the Wheel - traditions of the eight holidays of the Celtic year including Samhain, Winter and Summer Solstice, Spring-Autumn Equinox, Imbolic, Beltaine and Lammas.

For additional "card sending" sites, visit Yahoo's collection.

I am not interested in keeping this page updated with EVERY festival and party available on the Web. I would, however, appreciate Web pages related to major holidays and events that are permanent sites and don't disappear after the holiday, or those of an unusual nature that would fit well within the above categories.

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