Are you or anyone you know celebrating on Monday for MLK, Jr Day?

It’s a regular workday for me – I’ll be at my desk.

Many of our customers are city or county-owned facilities, and in Atlanta, almost all of them close for MLK day.

@elbanditoroso Really, on a Federal holiday? Seems weird.

Regular workday for me as well (in MA).

We are having a guest speaker at my congregation on Sunday and a service day in the afternoon in commemoration.

Hmmmm, I guess I thought it was mandatory. Interesting.

@janbb I’m going to check into that locally, all I have heard of is the parade.

It’s a holiday for banks, the post office, and the federal government. Most of the latter is already furloughed and not working at all.

Federal holiday just means that federal offices are closed. State and local government offices, however, are not obligated to close (unless, of course, that holiday is a state and/or local holiday as well).

So most people are working, interesting. I better look around for more ideas.

I don’t do anything on the day usually. I really want to see The Green Book, maybe Monday is extra motivation to finally get myself to the theatre. I hope the movie is stilll playing near me.

For me it’s a reminder of our youngest son. He was born on the holiday. We’ll be enjoying the extra long weekend since there’s no school Monday. Poor dad (Jon) will be working.

Today is MLK’s actual birthday – same day as mine.

If I’m not mistaken, there’s a jelly (Bill1939?) who attended the March on Washington in 1963.

Paul and I just did something meaningful to honor MLK Day – we went to this museum https://www.alexandriava.gov/FreedomHouse The museum is located nearby where I live, but I’d never visited until today.