A Quite Unusual Easter
Easter is early this year. Real early. In fact, it’s so early I found some interesting tidbits about this “early Easter”, so much of this is copied from identical items I found on numerous websites.First of all, Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full
moon after the Spring Equinox. That’s a fancy name for the First Day of Spring, which is usually March 20.
Depending on how the calendar falls and the phase of the moon, the earliest Easter could fall is March 22.
That, as you can imagine, is quite rare.
In fact, unless we find a cure for everything, this year’s Easter (on March 23) is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives!
And only those of you 95 years old or older have ever seen it this early.
The next time Easter will be this early will be the year 2228.
That’s 220 years from now. Perhaps by then, a Clinton or Bush won’t be in the White House.
The last time it was this early was 1913. That’s where the 95-year-old mention comes in.
The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285.
So if your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandchild is born in, say, 2227, he/she could experience an Easter on BOTH March 22 and March 23!
How lucky they would be!
By the way, the most-recent time Easter was on March 22 was in 1818.
Here’s something you most-definitely don’t know.
That’s the same day John Ainsworth Horrocks, an English-born explorer of South Australia was born.
This fellow is also remembered for accidentally shooting himself as he fell off a camel. Gangrene set in and he died. He was only 28 years old.
If only he had fallen off a huge bunny carrying a floral basket, we would have had a truly remarkable Easter story.
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