Judy Rothermel, Broker of Record / Owner EXIT Realty JP Rothermel Blog
Labor Day falls on September 5th this year (2022). Labor Day is one of the busiest travel days of the year. The National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (yes, that’s a real thing), says 7 billion hot dogs are eaten from Memorial Day to Labor Day. That’s only three months! You may have heard the saying “You can’t wear white after Labor Day”, and not known why. The origins of this saying comes from the 1800s. Back then, wearing lighter colors was a way to distinguish the different social classes. Wealt...
The holiday of pranksters goes back centuries. In the 16th century, Pope Gregory XIII changed the standardized calendar from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar (the one we still use today). The Gregorian Calendar added more days to the year, so this effectively made the new year celebration on Jan 1st instead of at the end of March.
In the 16th century, news spread very slowly compared to what we are used to, so not everyone was aware of the change. And people would see others celebra...
Presidents’ Day has been celebrated for centuries but it wasn’t always an official holiday or known as Presidents’ Day.
The idea for celebrating Presidents goes back to the year 1800. George Washington died in December of 1799, and every year after that his February 22nd birthday was a day of remembrance. In the 1800s, Washington was known as the most important figure in American history. There was a big celebration for the centennial of his birthday, and the Washington Monument started to be bu...
Celebrating the New Year in Times Square has been a tradition since The New York Times opened a new headquarters in 1903. It was this commemorative celebration that kickstarted the annual celebrations on New Year’s Eve. They launched fireworks each year. But after New York Times owner Adolph Ochs successfully lobbied to have what was then known as “Longacre Square” changed to “Times Square”, he wanted an even bigger spectacle.
In 1907, an electrician was hired to build a lit ball to be lowered d...
In about 1773 there was a petition made to the General Assembly, this was to request access to build a dam that could power a sawmill and a gristmill(a machine that grinds grain into flour). The Mill was made completely operational by the year 1778.
The house that resides across from the mill is often referred to as the “Miller’s House. It was originally built by Nehemiah Haines about ten years after the mill was constructed. His son later inherited it in 1830 and redesigned the mill from a...
