August 10, 2022 - National Golf Month | National S'mores Day

Welcome to August 10th, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate a trying sport and a tried and true dessert. Few pastimes have inspired so much anger and frustration as golf. For something so popular, it sure makes people angry. Take, for example, Winston Churchill, who called the sport “…a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” Even pro golfers aren’t immune. PGA champion Gardner Dickinson lamented: “People say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.” So why do we play? Probably because it’s often more about hanging out with friends than the game itself. During National Golf Month, have fun hitting the links and if things don’t pan out, you can always celebrate National Lazy Day instead. The next time you’re camping and spinning up stories around the fire, consider the origin of the s’more. Most believe that it was Alec Barnum that first created the treat in the late 1800s. Not much is known, however, about the entrepreneur that left a sticky trail of myths and legends. Enter Loretta Scott Crew. This leader taught hungry girl scouts how to perfectly toast a marshmallow, and her recipe for s’mores was printed in the 1927 guidebook. Today Trampling and Trailing With The Girl Scouts is still known for this treat, though everyone has their own secret for making the gooey, crispy delight. On National S’mores Day celebrate the dessert that’s become a right of passage and worthy of one more log on the fire. I’m Anna Devere and I’m Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices