Stephen Foster Memorial Day
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Primarily because his music was featured everywhere in each and every one of the music classrooms I encountered from the first grade through the eighth or so.
I know that I became intimately familiar with his work having sung all those standard numbers anywhere and everywhere.
Today we have a federal holiday in his honor called Stephen Foster Memorial Day which has been in effect since 1967 and persists to this time and place.
Stephen Collins Foster is known as "the father of American music" because of the widespread popularity of what was called "parlor and minstrel music" and which I always referred to as "folk music".
He has remained popular with his catalog of over 200 songs all of which are still in print — and I cannot think of anything that might detract from them aside from the SJW morons who think everything is about them.