Many consumer products were rationed due to wartime needs from sugar to rubber to gasoline. In wartime news, the Russian Red Army was starting to push back the Nazi armies from their homeland.
Shoppers thronged downtown stores during the week leading to Easter buying their Easter finery and various Easter related items. Easter lilies were in short supply and were replaced by various other types of spring flowers.
Almost all candy stores were sold out of chocolate candy early in the week. Meat rationing made it difficult for companies and businesses that traditionally presented their employees with an Easter ham or a slab of bacon, found it difficult to do so.
Various types of clothing items and shoes were also subject to rationing and regulations and some were in short supply. The planting of Victory Gardens was in full swing in the greater Williamsport area at Easter time Appeals were being made to have local citizens to do their patriotic duty by buying war bonds during the 2nd War Loan Drive. Recent heavy rain and melting snows raised the depth of the Susquehanna River to 19 feet, causing some low-level flooding in some areas.
Louis were the early leaders in the American League. For the first time since the founding of the New York-Pennsylvania League, later the Eastern League, Williamsport did not have an entry in the league due to wartime conditions. It left an aching void for the local baseball fans.
The annual Easter sunrise service that was normally held at the Grampian Hills Cross was moved to Brandon Park due to wartime conditions. That was also the case in Easter Day is the first Sunday after the first full Moon on or after the March equinox. Here, the March equinox is always assumed to occur on 21 March, but in practice, it can occur a day or two sooner.
Earliest possible Easter Day is 22 March, as in the years and Latest possible Easter Day is 25 April, as in the years , and The number of different possible days for Easter Day is An ecclesiastical computation, rather than the real Moon, is the basis for determining Easter Day.
Jesus was crucified on the 14th and rose from the dead some time before sunrise on the 16th day of Nisan. Because the Jews got away from the biblical Hebrew calendar in AD and further in AD , and because the Christians wanted the date to be independent of the Jewish calendar, the First Council of Nicaea AD established the independent and uniform calculation of the Easter date.
In many countries, Easter is a public holiday , and as it always falls on Sunday, some countries also have Easter Monday as a public holiday, including Australia, Germany and Ireland. Although, Easter is the most important Christian holiday it is not as popular as Christmas. It joins two important events of which the first is profoundly sad and dramatic while the other is just the opposite. The first one is, of course, the Crucifixion and Death of Christ after which his body was placed in the tomb.
Three days later he Resurrected beating death. Resurrection is a triumph of life and even more astonishing than the miracle of Christ birth. In addition to religious celebrations involving Church services, Easter is celebrated in several ways in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world. Some of these celebrations have little to do with the Christian meaning of the holiday. The most popular include family meals, Easter eggs decoration, hiding the decorated eggs for children to find and giving children baskets with candy.
In the USA, the Spring break for high school and college students usually occurs about Easter time, hence many families leave the cold of northern states to visit amusement parks or sunny beaches in the south.
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