Favorite Labor Day traditions 16 Articles

by Darla Smith

Labor Day takes place every year on the first Monday in September. It indicates the end of summer break for students and the beginning of a new school year. The holiday is a time when family and friends gather together fo...read more

by Mona Gallagher

If you were to visit the town of Tahlequah, Oklahoma over the Labor Day weekend, you would see Cherokees, lining the main street from one end to the other, 4 to 5 rows deep. For the past 55 years, Cherokees have celebr...read more

by Stephanie Knapp

Labor day. What is it that we celbrate and why? And what are the things that we do on this day that almost 3/4 of the nation is home with there families? In the following article I am going to give you my take on this s...read more

by Elyse West

Labor Day evokes the ghosts of the summer past, of time spent lazing about in the old hammock tied between two trees, a lemonade in one hand and a book in the other. It calls forth the emotion you felt the first time you s...read more

by Sarah Williams

Labor Day is the last real "hurrah" when it comes to summer fun! The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting cooler, and the kids are all getting back into the rhythm of attending school, and this is why Labor Da...read more

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by Olivia Bredbenner

Labor Day,I always think of it as the last splash of summer. It is an opportunity to get together with friends and family,before the children return to school and more structured routines replace our summer frolicking. It...read more

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by Doreen Mayers

The Favorite Labor Day Tradition is the annual West Indian Day Parade that is held in Brooklyn New York. The Parade was first started in the 1920 honoring immigrants from the Caribbean. This Parade original location was Ha...read more

by Sam Smart

Labor Day - it is the holiday where we take some time off to honor all of our hard working U.S. citizens. That remains very true for me. Because I work very hard to support myself as well, and I really do deserve a day o...read more

by A. South

What Memorial begins - the official start of summer, the ok to wear white - Labor Day ends. The two holidays are bonded by hot weather and char-grilled meat. As the official end of summer, I look to Labor Day with little...read more

by Wordsleuth

I don't have many labor day traditions, but I do have to say that my favorite is to just sit back, relax, cook out and drink. Relaxing is something that isn't that easy in today's very busy world and I enjoy my time to ...read more

by Darian Jamieson

One of the many great things about the summer months is the abundance of long week-ends. Each month arrives with the chance to get revved up for three days of fun and frolic. However the Labor Day week-end always brings b...read more

by Tiffany Coley

My family takes the title of this holiday a bit too literally. Traditionally our labor day is all about completing some household task we managed to avoid during spring cleaning. We successfully ignored it the entire summ...read more

by Louis Williams

Holidays:Definition Days usually marked by time off from secular work and school for commemoration of an event. Such days may also be occasions for family or community festivities. Participants may view them as being relig...read more

by Jennifer Eblin

Labor Day marks the end of summer. With more and more schools waiting until after the holiday before beginning, it is the last day you have to give your children one more great memory of the summer. In my family, Labor...read more

by Christina Vang

OH what a weekend labor day always means. It signifies the dwindling down of our hot summer nights and our summer fling. It's the weekend before most, if not all, children in the household return to school. As i drive thr...read more

by sublime

Hmmm...lately alot of my past-time traditions have not been the same.....but, in the past, my favorite Labor Day traditions have been, yes, like a last summer fling weekend! Traditionally, it was either planning a last can...read more