From app.info.americanpublicmediagroup.org - March 31, 2013 6:27 AM

"On Easter morning all over America
the peasants are frying potatoes in bacon grease.

We're not supposed to have 'peasants'
but there are tens of millions of them
frying potatoes on Easter morning,
cheap and delicious with catsup.

If Jesus were here this morning he might

....."


"Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the United States for the first time on this date in 1918."


"It's the birthday of philosopher René Descartes, born in La Haye en Touraine, France (1596), called the father of modern philosophy, but he considered himself a mathematician and scientist."


"It's the birthday of the poet Andrew Marvell, born in Winestead, England (1621)."


"Oklahoma! opened on Broadway on this date in 1943. It was based on a play called Green Grow the Lilacs (1930), by Lynn Riggs."