Presidents' Day is always the third Monday in February. Today (20 February) is also National Cherry Pie Day, and my tie shows the top view of a lattice cherry pie. Cherry pie has long been associated with George Washington, from the myth about his childhood action to chop down a cherry tree and then confessing to his father that he could not tell a lie. The myth seems to have been invented by one of Washington's biographers several years after his presidency. Presidents' Day originated from celebrations of Washington's birthday (22 February) and evolved with association with Abraham Lincoln's birthday (12 February). The official proclamation (in 1968, effective in 1971) calls it Washington's Birthday, but the popular name Presidents' Day (with the apostrophe) is now conventional.
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