Happy Labor Day, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    I always wondered why this day was called Labor Day, because on it most people do not work.  Which is its purpose--to honor those who do.  But why in early September, so that it becomes the unofficial end of Summer?  A fond farewell?  A cruel jab at all vacationers?  I have always questioned its placement, too, but really, what other day would suffice?

                                    And so here we are.  Though another sixteen days remain till the arrival of Fall, and Proserpina returning to Hell, for most of us, the summer here comes to a screeching halt.  And in my hometown of Highland Park, NJ, as stated, it signaled the imminence of the starting of school, which was the Wednesday following Labor Day.  I wonder if that still applies, there?

                                        Here is one person who knew the meaning of Labor Day-- 

                                      That's right, darlings!  Little Edie, in  "Grey Gardens!!!!!!!!!!!"

                               And here is Christine Ebersole, as Little Edie, in the musical "Grey Gardens, singing Labor Day's unofficial anthem, "Another Winter In A Summer Town!"

                                Happy, Happy, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!