Derry & Surrounding Areas Memorial Day events
31st Annual Memorial Weekend Craft Festival - Mill Falls Marketplace, GPS: 312 Daniel Webster Hwy, Meredith, NH 03253; May 27th-29th
Hampton Beach Fireworks - 169 Ocean Boulevard, Hampton, NH; May 28th 9:30pm
27th Annual Memorial Day Car Show - 50 Nashua Rd, Rt 102 Londonderry, NH; Registration begins at 9am and fee $15 Sunday May 28th (Rain date Monday May 29th)
Memorial Day Family Fun!!! - 150 Nashua Rd, Londonderry, NH, (NRG Zone Fitness and Yoga); May 29th 10am-3pm
Atkinson Memorial Day Parade - Atkinson Town Hall to the Dow Common, Atkinson, NH; May 29th 10:30am
Town of Pelham Memorial Day Parade and Ceremonies - 6 Village Green, Pelham, NH; May 29th 9am
Windham Memorial Day Parade - Center School to Ministerial Rd, Windham, NH; May 29th 9:30am
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Did you know...
- The Grand Army of the Republic began decorating the graves of fallen service members with flowers in May 1868, which was then known as "Decoration Day."
- In 1971 Congress declared Memorial Day a national holiday, to be observed on the last Monday in May, moving it from the static date of May 30, in order to create a 3-day weekend.
- On the Thursday before Memorial Day, small American flags are placed at each of the 400,000+ gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery and other cemeteries nationwide.
- To encourage more people to observe Memorial Day, Congress passed the National Moment of Remembrance Act in 2000, which asks people to stop what they are doing at 3 p.m. local time and observe a minute of silence to honor those who lost their lives defending the country.
- On Memorial Day, the flag should first be raised to the top of the staff, then slowly lowered to half-staff, until noon when it should be raised to the top of the staff for the rest of the day.
- Red poppies are considered the Memorial Day flower. It's referenced in the poem "In Flanders Fields." and refers to the fields of poppies growing among soldiers' graves during WWI.
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