Tax day is normally April 15th, unless it falls on a weekend, so this year, taxpayers got a little extra time to get their taxes done because the 15th was Saturday, yesterday.
One would think that the next working day, Monday, would be the official Tax Day. But, no, it’s Tuesday, the 18th. It turns out that April 16th is Emancipation Day in the District of Columbia. Over 3000 slaves were freed on that day in 1862 in the District of Columbia under the Compensated Emancipation Act.
Of course, since the 16th is on Sunday, the official holiday is Monday. IRS regulations prohibit the tax filing deadline from falling on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. I guess this qualifies as the latter as the I.R.S. office is closed on Monday.
I finally got our taxes done earlier today. I really didn’t wait until the last weekend. It was almost finished at the beginning of the week when I discovered that the TurboTax online version couldn’t do line item modification of forms. I ended up having to download a PC version of TurboTax! Then I had to reenter all of the information into it that I had entered into the online version.
But it’s done for another year, though it seems like just a few weeks ago that I did last year’s. Before ya know it, it’ll be time for doing it again.
Back in 2011, I created a short video using photographs from the civil war and mixed it with a couple of medleys of civil war music recorded almost 100 years ago. I titled it “Torn Asunder–Images from America’s Civil War.” It can be viewed in high definition by going to YouTube.com and then selecting the full screen icon in lower right corner of video (move mouse cursor over lower part of video to see icon).
Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama. 2010. Image retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010637620/. (Accessed February 26, 2017.)
Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 05782 (ONLINE) [P&P]
Notes:
Established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. Later it was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In 1989 it underwent a major expansion encompassing over 48 acres and 700 different species of animals.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer.
Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).
Forms part of: George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama
Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Highsmith, a distinguished and richly published American photographer, has donated her work to the Library of Congress since 1992. Starting in 2002, Highsmith provided scans or photographs she shot digitally with new donations to allow rapid online access throughout the world. Her generosity in dedicating the rights to the American people for copyright free access also makes this Archive a very special visual resource.
In 2009, art historian Gergely Barki was watching the 1999 film adaptation of E.B. White’s classic 1945 children’s book Stuart Little with his daughter Lola when he noticed something that thoroughly startled him. Hanging over the mantle of the protagonist’s apartment in the film was the long lost painting Sleeping Lady With a Black Vase by Hungarian painter Róbert Berény.
While someone with less knowledge of the painting might assume that it was a reprint, Barki had a very strong hunch it was the original painting, a painting which had been missing since 1928. After numerous emails to anyone and everyone he could find who had worked on the movie, eventually Barki got in contact with an assistant set designer who not only had the story of the painting, but had the painting itself hanging on her bedroom wall.
She’d purchased the painting for $500 in an antique store to add a little elegant decor to the Little’s apartment in the film. After filming, she liked the painting so much that she turned around and bought it off the company for her own collection. After Barki helped confirm the authenticity of the painting, the set designer sold the painting to a private collector who returned the painting to Hungary for auction.
Tax day is normally April 15th, unless it falls on a weekend, so this year, taxpayers got a little extra time to get their taxes done because the 15th was Saturday, yesterday.
