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National Themes For June 7: National Boone Day, National Chocolate Ice Cream Day, National VCR Day, and National Doughnut Day.

🍁National Boone Day commemorates the day frontiersman Daniel Boone first began exploring the valleys and forests of the present day Bluegrass State of Kentucky on June 7, 1769. Boone founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky which is one of the first American settlements west of the Appalachians. Daniel Boone, an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman, was born on November 2, 1734 (d. September 26, 1820). His frontier exploits made him one of United States first folk heroes. By the end of the 18th century, following the route marked by Boone, more than 200,000 European people had migrated to Kentucky/Virginia. Daniel Boone married Rebecca Bryan on August 14, 1756. They lived in a cabin on his father’s farm and had ten children. He supported his family as a market hunter, collecting pelts for the fur trade. During the Revolutionary War, Boone was a militia officer and in 1778 was captured by the Shawnee warriors who adopted him into their tribe. He later left the Indians, returning to Boonesborough to help defend the European settlements in Kentucky/Virginia. Following the war, Daniel Boone emigrated to eastern Missouri where he spent most of the last two decades of his life. Boone died of natural causes on September 26, 1820, at the age of 85. His last words were, “I’m going now, my time has come.” Many places in the United States are named after Daniel Boone including the Daniel Boone National Forest, the Sheltowee Trace Trail, the town of Boone, North Carolina, and seven different counties. Schools are also named after Boone, including locations in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Chicago. A legend in his lifetime, Boone remains an iconic figure in American history. The Kentucky Historical Society founded Boone Day over 140 years ago and the day is still going strong.

🍫🍦National Chocolate Ice Cream Day! Chocolate ice cream is the second most common flavor, surpassed only by vanilla. The chocolate flavored ice cream has been in existence well over a hundred years and has been popular in the United States since the late 19th century. Cocoa powder is blended in with eggs, cream, vanilla and sugar to make chocolate ice cream. The cocoa powder is what gives the ice cream a brown color. Other flavors, such as rocky road or triple chocolate chunk, use chocolate ice cream in their creation.

📼National VCR Day! Many young people do not know what a VCR player or a VCR tape is. National VCR Day is dedicated to the video cassette recorder (VCR). In their time, they were a marvel of technology! The video cassette recorder is an electro-mechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from television on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette. The images and sound can then be played back at a more convenient time. At the time, the VCR was the main way to watch movies at home, and one could create their own personal movie library. The first video cassette recorder was introduced in 1956. The home video cassette format (VCR) was developed in 1970. The birth of VCR mass market success boomed in the mid-1970s and continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Over 10 billion videotapes remain today with our recorded memories. These memories are keepsakes and people keep the tapes for that reason. It is important to move those memories to a more stable format to preserve them. Companies like Zoovio, Inc., provide options for both getting them converted to a DVD or stored in an online private vault online to be viewed and shared on internet connected devices including TVs.

🍩National Doughnut or Donut Day. This day celebrates the doughnut and honors the Salvation Army Lassies, the women that served doughnuts to soldiers during WWI. In 1917, the original “Salvation Army Doughnut” was first served by the ladies of the Salvation Army. It was during WWI that the Salvation Army Lassies went to the front lines of Europe. Home cooked foods, provided by these brave volunteers, were a morale boost to the troops. The doughnuts were often cooked in oil inside the metal helmets of American soldiers. American infantrymen were then commonly called “doughboys.” A more standard spelling is donut. National Doughnut Day was created by The Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the women who served the doughnuts to soldiers in World War I. This day began as a fund-raiser for Chicago’s Salvation Army. The goal of their 1938 fund-raiser was to help the needy during the Great Depression.

Daniel Boone lead quite the life. I like watching the TV series of him. I'm turning my chocolate ice cream into a chocolate shake. I can't seem to shake this craving for one. I still have a VCR, no tapes for it though. Its actually a VCR/DVD player combo. I always wondered where the term "doughboys" came from, now I know.

Sorry my twin, my wording wasn't clear, MD's favorite state is next. I've only looked up a couple of places to visit, and I'm not only ready to visit, I'm ready to move there to what I'm calling Snow Without The Cold. My kind of snow! And I can't wait to show it to you all.

I hope the two toasted loaves didn't get over toasted or heated. It got up to 86° here today. Sounds like I need to try a buffalo burger.

Snow without cold hugs!💕🐶🐶🌦