The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.
Having been raised by her father, William Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
In 1926, a National Father's Day Committee was formed in New York City. Father's Day was recognized by a Joint Resolution of Congress in 1956. In 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June. So Father's Day was born in memory and gratitude by a daughter who thought that her father and all good fathers should be honored with a special day just like we honor our mothers on Mother's Day.
An excerpt from the Silver Anniversary Book on Father's day published in 1935....
A father sat with bowed head in his aloneness. About him clung his weeping children. The winds outside threw great scarfs of powdered snow against the window panes, when suddenly the last born tore himself from the group and rushed out into the storm calling for his mother. Yet even his baby voice could not penetrate the great silence that held this mother. Hurriedly, the father gathered him back to his protection and for more than two decades, William Jackson Smart, alone, kept paternal vigilance over his motherless children.
Father's Day is Sunday, June 21st.
A cute card you can craft from Martha Stewart.
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/folded-shirt-card?backto=true
Is dad a gadget geek? Here's some gift ideas from etsy.
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-geeks-need-gifts-too-4015/
If your dad is the grill guru, check out these gifts from etsy.
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-grill-or-be-grilled-4016/
Check out these Father's Day arts-and-crafts from Family Fun
http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/specialfeature/fathers-day-crafts-and-gifts/
More food and gift ideas from Martha Stewart.
http://www.marthastewart.com/fathers-day
Lots more gift ideas from etsy.
http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/business-home-and-travel/154
http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/accessories-and-apparel/152
http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/tools-gadgets-and-games/153
http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/gift-ideas-under-30-usd/151
http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/him/61
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-48-hours-of-deals-for-dads-4055/
http://www.etsy.com/storque/etc/your-dad-is-in-luck-4102/
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-adventures-with-dad-4088/
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/guest-curator-fathers-day-fun-with-extreme-crafts-garth-john-4076/
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