Re: [CBQ] What's in a Calendar?

["Mark Meyer via Groups.Io" <VerMontanan=aol.com@groups.io>]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 02:43 PM, Don Winn wrote:
> I was just looking at my Hill Line calendars for March and noticing what is posted for this week:
>
> BN calendar:   March 2nd is filled in green, proclaiming M-Day 1970
> GN calendar:  March 3rd has a 50th anniversary ribbon for the merger
> NP calendar:  March 3rd is filled in black, as it is every year.  Wow.  (It's like talking about the Civil War in the south.  Get over it and move on.)
> CB&Q calendar:  No mention.
>
> Not saying which is right, just interesting that they all have a very different spin.
Actually, only the NP (and the SP&S as stated later) is "spinning."  The BRHS calendar doesn't have this stuff, so there can't be "spin."  The GNRHS calendar indicates March 3 as "1970-Burlington Northern merger takes effect" which is in line with other factual information about history.  I haven't seen the SP&SHS calendar, but the NPRHA calendar has always been blacked out on March 3.  No explanation of course, but freedictionary.com describes "a black day" as "a day when something sad, unpleasant or disastrous happens."  I have no doubt that some viewed it this way, but not all, and by showing it as such is clearly an attempt to impose one point of view.  But it's not the Northern Pacific Railway Opinion Association.  Don's right - they really need to get over it and move on, but 50 years into it, I doubt that will happen.

--Mark Meyer

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