Date of show: March 14 - March 25, 2007 (North gallery)
Reception: Thursday, March 15, 5 - 19 pm
Title: “The Ides Have It”
Type of work: mixed

Description:
Propeller members tip their hats to the middle of the month of March in this spontaneous burst of enthusiasm for the imminence of Spring.

History of “the Ides of March” gathered from the Web (http://www.infoplease.com/spot/ides1.html)

“The soothsayer’s warning to Julius Caesar, “Beware the Ides of March,” has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression “Ides of March” did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying “March 15.” .....

“The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar ...The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:

“* Kalends (1st day of the month)
“* Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months)
“* Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months)

“The remaining, unnamed days of the month were identified by counting backwards from the Kalends, Nones, or the Ides. For example, March 3 would be V Nones—5 days before the Nones (the Roman method of counting days was inclusive; in other words, the Nones would be counted as one of the 5 days).

“Days in March
“March 1: Kalends; March 2: VI Nones; March 3: V Nones; March 4: IV Nones; March 5: III Nones; March 6: Pridie Nones (Latin for “on the day before”); March 7: Nones; March 15: Ides
“Used in the first Roman calendar as well as in the Julian calendar (established by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C.E.) the confusing system of Kalends, Nones, and Ides continued to be used to varying degrees throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance.
“So, the Ides of March is just one of a dozen Ides that occur every month of the year. Kalends, the word from which calendar is derived, is another exotic-sounding term with a mundane meaning. Kalendrium means account book in Latin: Kalend, the first of the month, was in Roman times as it is now, the date on which bills are due.”

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/ides1.html