National Good Neighbor Day
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There have been examples of good neighbors in my past ... but it's merely a transient apparition relegated to those far recesses of my memory when I recall all the others with whom I've been "neighbors".
Nothing wrong with being a good neighbor. I'm just not one.
Today is National Good Neighbor Day — a national holiday observed in the United States of America for a while now. Back in the year 2003, the annual day it is celebrated was changed to September 28. It had previously been observed on the fourth Sunday in September.
The creation of one Becky Mattson of Lakeside, Montana in the early 1970s it typifies those early post-1960s efforts to network and was an attempt to exemplify the importance of neighbors and being a "good" one in particular.
President Jimmy Carter signed Proclamation 4601 establishing it's observance on September 24, 1978. The Senate passed a resolution by Montana Senator Max Baucus to designate September 26 as National Good Neighbor Day. So here we sit on the cusp of what has been a cluster of good neighbor days about to go for it once again !
So happy good neighbor day, neighbor !