New Years Traditional Cache
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Happy New Years and welcome to a new year of geocaching fun! This is an easy grab at the start of the Loverens Mill trail. There are a lot of neat places to explore (remnants of a mill), so check out the trail map and have fun.
New Years is a micro - film canister, thus, there is only room for the log and you will need to bring your own writing instrument. As in other caches in the holiday series, I have presented you with a short history lesson on what the holiday is.
January 1st was not the original day for New Years. The earliest recording of a new year celebration is believed to have been in Mesopotamia at around 2000 B.C. and was celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox in mid March. There were also other dates tied to the seasons that were used by ancient cultures.
In the early Roman calendar, March 1st rang in the New Year. This calendar designated March 1st as the New Year. The calendar had just ten months, beginning with March. January joins the calendar and the new year was first celebrated on January 1st in Rome in 153 B.C. The Julian Calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. and was a solar based calendar that was a vast improvement on the Roman calendar, which was a lunar system that had become wildly inaccurate over the years. The Julian calendar decreed that the New Year would begin on January 1st.
We enter the Middle Ages and January 1st was abolished. In medieval Europe, the celebrations accompanying the new year were considered pagan and in 567 the Council of Tours abolished January 1st as the beginning of the year. At various times and places throughout Europe, the new year was celebrated on December 25th, March 1st, and March 25th, the Feast of Annunciation, and on Easter.
In 1582, the Gregorian Calendar reform restored January 1st as New Year’s Day and it took until 1752 for all countries, including the American colonies to adopt the Gregorian calendar and switch their observance of the new year from March to January.
January 1 marks the beginning of a new year and the passing of the old year. It is the culmination of the holiday season that began with Thanksgiving and moved through Christmas and now to the end of the season with New Years. The week of New Years is also a time of remembrance where you might see on the news and in publications a re-cap of the year’s significant events, whether they are disasters, politics, scientific achievements, music and the arts. New Year’s Resolutions also are part of the traditions of New Years as well as fireworks and midnight ‘toasts’ to ring in the New Year on December 31st, New Years Eve.
You are welcome to share a New Year's Resolution in your log entry. Have fun, happy caching, and Happy New Year
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