Sheriff's Notes

A Message from Our Sheriff

Greetings Westerners,

Please read the reservation section on the front of this Roundup carefully. Donna Lemmon will now be handling all things regarding our Corral dinner reservations. Please do not call Bob Harner in this regard. Thank you.

Mayday, mayday, mayday! No, not the distress call but May Day, on May 1st. Centuries ago it was celebrated as a Pagan fertility festival and much later, as a world-wide labor rights celebration. You may also remember celebrating May 1st dancing around the Maypole back in your early grammar school days. I do.

These days, May 1st is celebrated in many countries as International Workers Day, commemorating the Haymarket Incident in Chicago in 1886. On that fateful May date, coordinated by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions-which later became the AFL, as in the AFL-CIO-hundreds of thousands of American workers went on strike across our country in support of the eight-hour workday. Back then, the average person worked 60+ hours in a six or seven-day workweek.

Some of the other important days to remember in May are the National Day of Prayer on the 7th (same day as our Corral meeting), Mother’s Day on the 10th, Armed Forces Day on the 18th, Memorial Day on the 25th, and John Wayne and James Arness’ Birthdays on the 26th. You know I had to slip in some movie trivia somewhere.

It won’t be long until we celebrate our 250th Semiquincentennial.

Please check our website, www.prescottcorral.org to stay informed of the goings-on with our Corral and Westerners International. We have been working on a really nice website upgrade. When it becomes fully operational, one section will even let you read back issues of our once published Territorial Times.

Happy Trails!

Sheriff Ken
Email: buffalowallowaz@gmail.com
Cell: 970-560-9965