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One of the things that I’ve noticed over the past 20 years is that secular holidays have been emphasized while religious ones de-emphasized. As a child, Christmas was the 800 pound gorilla, as was Thanksgiving, then Easter. Events like labor day came and went without much notice.

You too, huh? I noticed the same thing, especially with Easter. When I was a kid, it seemed like Easter was tied or at least just "this much" ahead of Thanksgiving in the pecking order of holidays. Today, it seems like Easter is barely above the signal to noise ratio. B-( So far, Thanksgiving and Christmas have survived taking their hits but if we don't defend those (defend Easter too), they can diminish over time as well. As a kid, we had "Easter Break," now it is "spring break," we had "Christmas week" 9and some change) off, not it is "winter break." I vaguely remember Lincoln's and Washigntons birthdays were separate (I'm 41 years old) but now have been combined into Presidents' Day, we don't even get that off. B-P

When I was a kid, it seemed like Easter was tied or at least just "this much" ahead of Thanksgiving in the pecking order of holidays. Today, it seems like Easter is barely above the signal to noise ratio.

I'm sure you noticed, too, that the week we got off school was "Easter Vacation." and fell during Holy Week. Today it's called "Spring Break" and comes whenever. And it's famous (or infamous, if you prefer) for bacchanalian hijinks.