Fillmore Days
Moravia, New York, the closest town to Millard Fillmore’s birthplace in Summerhill and the location of Fillmore’s wedding, hosts an annual celebration called Fillmore Days in July. One event involves four-wheel bathtubs racing down Main Street in honor of this hoax.
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Famous quotes containing the word days:
“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)