Eggs and Flowers Make Great Southern Tier Easter Traditions

What is your favorite Easter tradition?  For many it is being with friends and family, getting outside more, surprising your loved one with colorful Easter flowers or decorating and setting up hard boiled eggs for an Easter egg hunt with the kids.  But where is the history of some of our cherished holiday traditions?

As far as Easter eggs, they have played a big part in the April holiday throughout history.  According to TheHolidaySpot.com, during medieval times, a festival of egg throwing was held in church, during which the priest would trow a hard-boiled egg at one of the choirboys?

It would not be Easter without flowers.  Chiff.com says the most popular flower for decorating church altars is the white trumpet lily, symbolizing grace, purity and virtue.  In addition to decorating churches, lilies account for more than half of all Easter gift plants purchased for the holiday, followed by azaleas, and African violets.

Happy Easter from all of us on the Hawk!