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Welcome to Knittin' Day, Flittin' Day and A' Fools' Day
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Lancaster New Era
- Article date:
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April 1, 2008
- Author:
- Brubaker, Jack
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Today is Knittin' Day in Ronks, where old and young, but mostly old,
take out needle and thread and knit swim trunks in preparation for
the pool season.
As we observe this fittin' day for knittin' trunks in Ronks, the
Scribbler reminds all readers that long before April 1 was known as
Knittin' Day, it was Flittin' Day.
Harold Eager, former editor of the Sunday News, says April 1 was
called Flittin' Day because mortgages came due and those who could
not pay would have to move as banks foreclosed on their homes.
That is, they would have to move rapidly, or flit.
And that brings us to an old Scottish poem entitled,
appropriately, ...