Frenchman's Creek Newsletter Oct. 2014

What We Love About…

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, SEE, HEAR, AND TALK ABOUT THIS MONTH

YOM KIPPUR … OCT. 3 Yom means "day" in Hebrew and Kippur comes from a root that means "to atone". Thus Yom Kippur has come to mean "day of atonement". Some[who?] say there is a link to kapporet, the “mercy seat” or covering of the Ark of the Covenant. Abraham Ibn Ezra states that the word indicates the task and not just the shape of the ark cover; since the blood of the Yom Kippur sacrifice was sprinkled in its direcƟon, it was the symbol of propiƟaƟon.

DID YOU KNOW...

...Hawaii has a special October event called "the Aloha FesƟval," someƟmes de- scribed as the "Mardi Gras of the Pacific." ...A total lunar eclipse will take place on 8 October 2014. ...Columbus Day is celebrated the second Monday every October. ...Germany's Oktoberfest originally began on October 17, 1810, the wedding day of King Ludwig I. The annual fesƟval starts much earlier, oŌen in Septem- ber. ...Daylight Savings Time ends every year at 2:00 A.M. local Ɵme on the last Sun- day of October ...October's flower is the calendula. ...October is the tenth month in the Gregorian calendar, received its name from the LaƟn numeral octo meaning "eight", because in the original Roman calen- dar it was the eighth month. ...October begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Libra and ends in the sign of Scorpio.

is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

HALLOWEEN...OCT. 31 Evolving from the ancient CelƟc holiday of Samhain, modern Halloween has become less about literal ghosts and ghouls and more about costumes and candy. The Celts used the day to mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, and also believed that this transiƟon between the seasons was a bridge to the world of the

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