Reference Question of the Week – 4/11/10
April 17th, 2010 Brian Herzog
The phone rang and an elderly woman asked,
Can you please tell me when Arbor day is this year? I looked on every April calendar I have in my house, but none of them list it.
I checked the two printed calendars we have near the desk, and sure enough, it wasn't marked on either of them.
For date-related questions, my favorite resource is Chase's Calendar of Events, which we have in the ready reference collection. I pulled that out, flipped to the index and found that this year's National Arbor Day is April 30th.
I gave her the date, then said I too was surprised it wasn't on any of our printed calendars. Her reply made me laugh out loud:
Well, thank you. It was a big deal when I was a little girl, but I guess nowadays if you can't sell something or get naked, no one cares.
Too right.
