By definition, a leap year must have a leap day. That would be February 29. A weird day, to be sure: it screws up everybody's calendar, promotes unusual behaviors in both sexes, and causes stresses in the work place, schools, and at the gym where work outs run on and on.
Probably the most difficult day for those poor saps born on a February 29, leap day. Every year they become unwitting victims of jokes, intended or not, surrounding their parentage, their intellectual weight, and their actual age. "Well, I'm only 12 years old if you're counting birthdays".
and the like.
Most people could care less, but for some, there can be some memories attached to Leap Year.
1968 was a Leap Year. That most memorable of American years when worldwide upheavals at home and abroad threatened to cause civilization to implode. The list of events of that Leap Year continues to grow as writers/ historians unearth facts and figures related to events in 1968.
Soon the mayor will post up a preliminary list and request the citizenry to add to the list to make it more complete. Involving the community in this "living" history project will benefit the wider community.
Stay tuned.
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