Below is the Carmine Guica Young Historians Update for March 2021. For more information, assistance, or to arrange a program, please e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.com or call 802-226-7807.
With the warmer weather approaching, there are various opportunities for field trips as well as having students involved in helping out in the community through CHS’s Preserve and Serve program. This can include helping with gardening, cleaning gravestones, or assisting some of our seniors with outdoor chores.
Arbor Day
(April 26th):
Vermont celebrates this date the first Friday in May. Learn more about how VT
celebrates and how you can participate at the VT Community Forestry Website.
Deaf History Month. Note that Deaf History month extends from March 13 to April 15th. This is a great time to learn basic American Sign Language (ASL). Gallaudet offers a free education program called ASL Connect that includes videos and much more.
Earth Day
(April 22): Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on
April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated
in 1970, it now includes events coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network
in more than 193 countries.
CHS is happy to work with students for a “green up” activity in Cavendish the week of April 22 . Please let us know in advance if you are interest so we can be sure to have sufficient bags for the project. While Green Up Day is May 1, there is so much debris lying the town will once again be providing green up bags when they become available.
- EPA’s Earth Day website includes
projects and ideas
- Living Earth
Virtual Festival from the National Museum of the American Indian April 21-April 25
- Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources is offering ideas and suggestions starting with Monday April 22 and running until Friday April 26.
HISTORICAL DATES FOR APRIL: April is one of the more significant months in American history. Both the Civil War and the Revolutionary War began in this month, with the Civil War also ending in April. Both President Lincoln and Martin Luther King were assassinated. Civil Rights bills were passed twice, once in 1866 and again in 1968. Weather and Covid permitting, this is a good month to visit Boston and walk the Freedom Trail.
April 1 April Fools’ Day: Check out JSTOR’s The Completely True History of April Fools’ Day.
April 2, 1513 - Spanish explorer Ponce De Leon sighted Florida and claimed it for the Spanish Crown after landing at the site of present day St. Augustine, now the oldest city in the continental U.S.
April 2, 1792 - Congress established the first U.S. Mint at Philadelphia. The US Mint website includes virtual tours and lots of interesting information about coins.
April 3, 1860 - The Pony Express service began as the first rider departed St. Joseph, Missouri. For $5 an ounce, letters were delivered 2,000 miles to California within ten days. The famed Pony Express riders each rode from 75 to 100 miles before handing the letters off to the next rider. A total of 190 way stations were located about 15 miles apart. The service lasted less than two years, ending upon the completion of the overland telegraph.
- 1995 - Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman to preside over the Court, sitting in for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist who was out of town.
April 4, 1949 - Twelve nations signed the treaty creating NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The nations united for common military defense against the threat of expansion by Soviet Russia into Western Europe.
- 1968 - Civil Rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was shot and killed by a sniper in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 6, 1896 - After a break of 1500 years, the first Olympics of the modern era was held in Athens, Greece.
1917 - Following a vote by Congress approving a declaration of war, the U.S. entered World War I in Europe.
April 9, 1865 - General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in the village of Appomattox Court House ending the Civil War.
1866: Despite a veto by President Andrew Johnson, the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was passed by Congress granting blacks the rights and privileges of U.S. citizenship.
April 11, 1968: A week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law prohibited discrimination in housing, protected civil rights workers and expanded the rights of Native Americans.
April 12, 1861: The American Civil War began as Confederate troops under the command of General Pierre Beauregard opened fire at 4:30 a.m. on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
April 12, 1961: Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
April 14, 1865: President Lincoln is shot
April 15, 1912: Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg
April 16, 1862: Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia and appropriated $1 million to compensate owners of freed slaves.
April 18,
1775: The Midnight Ride
of Paul Revere and William Dawes-rode out of Boston at 10 pm to warn patriots
at Lexington and Concord of the approaching British. Check out the Paul Revere website
April 19, 1775: Battle at Lexington Green. An unordered shot became “the shot heard around the world” and began the American Revolution.
April 24, 1800: Library of Congress was established in Washington DC. Excellent website that offers a wealth of information as well as activities to do with students.
April 26, 1986: Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine explodes
April 30, 1789: George Washington became the first U.S. President as he was administered the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in New York City.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS Hans Christian Anderson (April 2, 1805); April 3, 1783 Washington Irving; April 5, 1856 Booker T. Washington; April 6, 1483 Renaissance artist Raphael; April 8, 563 B.B Buddha; April 9, 1898 Paul Robeson; April 13, 1743 Thomas Jefferson; April 16, 1867 Wilbur Wright; April 16 1889 Charlie Chaplin; April 20 Adolf Hitler; April 22, 1870 Vladimir Lenin; April 23 1564 William Shakespeare; Aril 25, 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, radio inventor; April 26, 1785 John Audubon, naturalist; April 26 1822 Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted; April 27, 1791Telegraph inventor Samuel FB Morse; April 27, 1822 Ulysses S. Grant; April 28 1758 James Monroe
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