MLK observation

[celticdragonfly]

elisem asked how people are observing MLK day, thought I'd share mine here as well as in the comment to her.

We observed it yesterday. Took Robyn to the church I've been experimentally visiting, the woman who is an intermittent visiting pastor spoke on MLK in her sermon. Got into a personal discussion with her, my sister, and the organist later, all of us discussing him. Later when we were back home I read through one of his speeches that the pastor had quoted in her sermon, the last one he ever gave. Then in the evening we played a recording of an excerpt from the famous "I have a dream" speech, we found that online, and gave a simplified explanation of the day for Maggie, and how important it is to judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

She won't get it at this age, no, but we'll probably do something similar next year. I called the ex, and in with discussing how Brendan is doing, suggested he do something similar with Brendan, since he's missing it here. We try to do something getting across the meaning of the various holidays, generally a reading. For 4th of July we had a barbeque and I read Patrick Henry's famous speech, Karl read the Declaration, and we watched 1776. For Memorial Day Karl delivered the Gettysburg Address. IIRC for Veteran's Day we read one of the poems that came out of WWI.

Does anyone else do anything similar that they'd like to share?