Towel Day

We are so pleased to be celebrating the work of Douglas Adams on May 26, Towel Day!  Worldwide, Towel Day is actually celebrated on May 25, but since we have a holiday that day, we'll do it on Monday.

So, what is Towel Day, and why celebrate it?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about the towel:

“A towel, ... is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”  

Douglas Adams fans started towel day shortly after his untimely death on May 11, 2001 as a way to commemorate his life and work.  It started at the grassroots level, but over the years Towel Day has become a universe-wide celebration.

So bring your towel to school on Monday May 26, and we'll enter your name in a raffle to win cinema tickets. There are two pairs of tickets to be won!

Also, join us in the library at lunch time to watch Douglas Adams/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy videos and enjoy some snacks.  See you there!