April 2015

Short list for April

Publication of the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award[2] and Pulitzer Prize[3] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962.[4] Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other “Okies”, they sought jobs, land, dignity, and a future. (From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath )

Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (awarded 2^nd of 4 academy awards), received the American Humanist Association’s Arts Award in 1985.

“I’m an Atheist and that’s it,” said Katharine to Ladies Home Journal in 1991. “I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other, and do what we can for other people.”

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/katharine_hepburn.html
• http://americanhumanist.org/news/details/2010-05-humanists-applaud-release-of-katharine-hepburn-commem

Other Calendars

• Anti-Defamation League ADL 2015 04 April
• Freedom from Religion Foundation FFRF Calendar 04
• United Nations Observations UN Proclomations & Observances 2015 04 April

Full BAH Listing and Research on April 2015

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