Bibliomania Day, celebrated on March 20 every year, commemorates the anniversary of the great grand heist of 23,600 books executed by Stephen Blumberg. Many people confuse bibliophilia — the love of books, with bibliomania, the compulsive disorder of hoarding books. This obsession with collecting books can even go on to damage a person’s social relations or health. Let’s learn more about bibliomania, its symptoms, facts, and how to know if you are a bibliomaniac.
Maple Syrup Saturday
Maple Syrup Saturday is celebrated every third Saturday of March and this year it will be observed on March 21. It is an annual event organized by the Bubolz Nature Preserve that encourages people to take their sap buckets, tap their own maple tree, and collect sap. After registration, a naturalist accompanies the family and provides them with the guidance to tap their maple tree. It is a fun day full of activities that support environmental education and gives some interesting facts like for example — do you know that it has been 160 years since the first metal maple syrup sap spout was invented?
Daylight Savings
Daylight Savings Time Starts, observed on March 8 this year, is the practice of advancing the clocks by one hour from Standard Time during the summer months and reverting the clocks to Standard Time in the autumn. The fundamental concept is that doing so will help us all to create better use of natural daylight: putting the clocks forward one hour in the spring will give us more daylight during summer nights while changing the clocks back one hour in the fall would give us more daylight during winter mornings. Thus, Daylight Saving Time helps us save energy and reduce costs.