Talking Southern – Yankee Memorial Day

Talking Southern – Yankee Memorial Day

That is not a derisive term, truly; it is just what your compiler used to hear folks of his grandparents’ generation say to differentiate their springtime holidays.  Confederate Memorial Day, which was held on April 26th each year and widely celebrated for perhaps the first three quarters of the twentieth century, was usually referred to simply as “Memorial Day,” so the national holiday of remembrance near the end of May needed a different name.…