When the FULL moon hits the sky like a big pizza PI -

It's a Community Celebration Event!

It's comtg's Full Moon Rising Event meets comtg's PI Day Event!

I've held 23 Full Moon events and a PI Day Event for the last 2 years; this year they land on the same day, so...

It's time for pizza, Moonpies, prizes, and a

Community Celebration Event!

The event begins at 6:30 PM and will officially end by ​​​​8:30 PM

Post your will attend so I have enough Pizza & Moonpies!

BYOB (no alchohol)

Let's Play a game, too!  

If you want to play the game, LCR (left, center, right), bring 3 round items to pass around such as Trackable Coins, Travel Bugs, Wooden Nickels, small geocache containers, and of course, regular coins (value 25¢ or more). Use your imagination. You may be the lucky winner who takes home the whole bunch.

The full moon (tatkresiwok - Inuit) occurs when the Sun and the Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth every 29.53 days. This lunar phase is known by many different names, cultures, religions, and languages, depending on the month it occurs. This late winter full moon occurs in March and is known as the Wind, Little Grass, Sore-Eye, or Full Worm Moon.

The full moon for March is at its fullest at 2:55 AM on Friday the 14^th  It is also a Total Lunar Eclipse.  For information on the timing of this check this link:  https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/@7133330?iso=20250314

...and the sun sets at 7:31 PM and the moon rises at 8:05 PM.

This is the best night to view the moon at its fullest AFTER it rises today!  Join us for a Community Celebration Event to watch the sunset over the Moon River and the full moon rise over the Skidaway River. 

The event begins at 6:30 PM and will officially end by ​​​​8:30 PM, but some may linger a little longer.  Bring your camp chairs or blankets to enjoy this magical evening.  And bring the BUG SPRAY!!!! 

Please bring your travel bugs and coins for trading, discovering, or just showing them off.  

Remember to dress appropriately for the temperature and weather conditions, as this event is outdoors, rain or shine.  The terrain is mostly grassy where we will be meeting.

Interestingly, calendars indicating moon phases may often be off by a day when intended for use in a different time zone.  Don't be late or you might miss this magical time as the sun sets and the full moon rises.

Today is...

• National Pi Day
• National Write Down Your Story Day
• National Learn About Butterflies Day
• National Potato Chip Day

On this day...

• 1592 "Ultimate Pi day": this day at 6:53 am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)
• 1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
• 1743 1st American town meeting is held in Boston's Faneuil Hall
• 1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine
• 1812 US Congress authorizes war bonds to finance the War of 1812
• 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
• 1880 Salvation Army of England starts work in the US at Harry Hill's Variety Theatre in NYC
• 1900 US currency goes on the gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act
• 1922 Radio transmissions begin in Honolulu, HI, St. Louis, MO, and Buffalo, NY
• 1923 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
• 1931 1st theater built for rear movie projections (NYC)
• 1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
• 1954 Milwaukee Braves future home run king Hank Aaron homers in his debut exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox
• 1956 50-year-old baseball pitching star Satchel Paige signs a contract to play for and manage the Birmingham Black Barons
• 1958 Recording Industry Association of America certifies 1st gold record - Perry Como's single "Catch A Falling Star"
• 1964 Jack Ruby is sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder
• 1967 JFK's body is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial in Arlington National Cemetery
• 1973 Future US Senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp
• 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress1994 Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released
• 2013 Xi Jinping named the new President of the People's Republic of China
• 2018 Angela Merkel sworn in for fourth term as German Chancellor
• 2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
• 2022 Omicron causes the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in China since Wuhan 2020 with 26 million people under lockdown in Changchun and Shenzhen

Notable births...

• 1755 Pierre-Louis Couperin, French organist and composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1789)
• 1800 James Bogardus, an American inventor, and builder (made cast-iron buildings), was born in Catskill, New York (d. 1874)
• 1862 Eva Thatcher, American actress, born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1942)
• 1879 Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist famous for his theory of relativity and E=mc2 (1921 Nobel Prize for Physics), born in Ulm, German Empire (d.1955)
• 1904 Doris Eaton, American actress (Man on the Moon, Tell Your Children), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 2010)
• 1912 Les Brown, American big band bandleader (His Band of Renown - "Sentimental Journey"), born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
• 1914 Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
• 1921 S. Truett Cathy, American businessman (founder of Chick-fil-A), born in Eatonton, Georgia (d. 2014)
• 1928 Frank Borman American USAF colonel, NASA astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8), and CEO of Eastern Air Lines (1975-86), born in Gary, Indiana
• 1933 English actor Michael Caine, born in London England
• 1933 Quincy Jones Jr., American jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, record producer, and film producer, born in Chicago, IL
• 1948 Billy Crystal, American Emmy and Tony Award-winning comic, actor, writer, and producer born in NYC
• 1951 Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, was born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1967 Melissa Brennan Reeves, American actress (Jen-Days of our Lives), born in Eatontown, New Jersey
• 1983 Taylor Hanson, American pop singer and keyboard player (Hanson - "MMMMbop"), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 1988 Steph Curry, American basketball guard NBA, born in Akron, OH
• 1997 Simone Biles, American gymnast, born in Columbus, OH

Notable Deaths...

• 1490 Charles I, Duke of Savoy (1482-90), dies at 21
• 1757 John Byng, English admiral executed by firing squad at 52 for neglecting his duty in defense of Minorca, dies at 53
• 1883 Karl Marx (1818-1883) German philosopher dies of broncitis and pleurisy
• 1908 Lester A. Pelton, American inventor (water wheel for hydroelectricity), dies at 78
• 1918 Lucretia Garfield, First Lady of the United States as the wife of James A. Garfield (1881), dies at 85
• 1932 George Eastman (b. 1854), American inventor (Kodak Camera) and founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, commits suicide
• 1965 Marion Jones, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1899, 1902), dies at 85
• 1991 Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (Little Shop of Horrors; The Little Mermaid), dies of AIDS-related complications at 40
• 1992 C. V. Wood Jr., American theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71
• 2010 (Donald) "Der" Scutt, American architect (Grand Hyatt; One Astor Place; Trump Tower), dies of liver failure at 75
• 2018 Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) English physicist dies at 76
• 2019 Birch Bayh, American politician and US Senator from Indiana (Democrat: 1963-81) who wrote two amendments to the US Constitution (25th and 26th), dies of pneumonia at 91

Community Celebration Events - 2025

This Event is part of a limited release of Community Celebration Events to celebrate 25 years of geocaching. Geocachers hosted events between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. Learn more about Community Celebration Events on the Geocaching Blog.