Today is...

[IceWizard]

Wednesday 18 May 2016

International Museum Day



May 18 is International Museum Day, which makes it the perfect day to visit your local museums and learn about what they offer and the role they play in society.

The point of Museum Day is to raise awareness of museums and keep the public informed on what challenges museums face as non-profit institutions.

Each year has a specific theme for the day, and for 2016 it's "Museums and Cultural Landscapes." More than 30,000 museums all over the world participate, many offering free exhibits and activities that revolve around that theme.

[b]

National Golf Day



The perception of golf for too long has been that golf is an elitist sport, enjoyed by a privileged few. As a consequence, the thought was that golf can take care of itself. It's our job to educate members of Congress and members of their staff about golf.

Before this, there wasn't anyone advocating for golf on Capitol Hill. The first year, it was very much about the economic impact. People viewed golf, in term of people making a living from it, as Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson, who are getting fabulously wealthy from it, which is fine and more power to those guys.

The reality is that the backbone of golf is the person who is working on the superintendent's crew, or working for the club manager in the clubhouse, working for the professional pulling clubs out of trunks, putting them on carts, cleaning them and then putting them back on trunks. And none of those people are getting rich, trust me. And that's the backbone of golf. It's that person getting up at 5 a.m. to work. So those are the sort of things that are being communicated.