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6/22/2009
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Solstice Marks Longest Day Of The Year, Start Of Summer
Author: Jeff Wilkin Source: Gazette Reporter (NY)
Title: SOLSTICE MARKS LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR, START OF SUMMER
For the sun, it’s the big day out.
Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and the beginning of summer on the Gregorian calendar. Some will greet the great day with celebrations; others may just be interested in all of the scientific facts under the sun.
“The origins of midsummer are based in European traditions in some cases,” said Ellen McHale, executive director of the New York Folklore Society in Schenectady. “Those kinds of traditions were replicated in this country as people came from Europe.”
McHale said the summer solstice, autumnal equinox, winter solstice and spring equinox were — and remain — important dates on the European calendar, especially in agrarian or rural cultures.
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