A new year, a new calendar — or…
If you never got around to using an old 1988 or have a favorite 1960 calendar, they are finally functional again! How do I know this? One of my favorite perpetual calendars tells me so. Calendars can come in pretty handy when working with historic materials. For example, many newspapers published weekly editions and often referred only to the weekday an event occurred (so and so arrived Wednesday or such and such will be held on Monday) and today we must scurry to find a now ancient calendar to determine what date they were talking about. Of course, a quick Google search …