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Sadie Hawkins Day
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Li'l Abner 
 This site has a brief biography of cartoonist Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin) and a history of his highly successful comic strip of social satire, Li'l Abner . There are also profiles and notes on many of the strip's characters from Dogpatch, USA: Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, Fearless Fosdick, Honest Abe, the Shmoos and others. Capp was also known for his newspaper columns, radio shows, lectures, and the promotion of Sadie Hawkins Day. http://www.lil-abner.com/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Holidays and Observances Individually, Literature: Fiction, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People: Arts & Humanities Last updated Oct 2, 2004 Sadie Hawkins Day
The site tells the history of this celebration introduced by cartoonist Al Capp in his Li'l Abner comic strip on November 15, 1937. Hekzebiah Hawkins of Dogpatch, USA, "decreed the first annual Sadie Hawkins Day, a foot race in which the unmarried gals pursued the town's bachelors, with matrimony the consequence." It was featured every November in the comic strip and the fictional holiday became a national craze observed on high school and college campuses. http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html Topics: Holidays and Observances Individually, Literature: Fiction Last updated Nov 4, 2002 |
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