This is New Year’s Eve if you follow the Gregorian calendar
or even the Julian calendar.
Nonetheless, New Years is a way of sloughing off the old and welcoming
the new with a sense of renewal and expectation. Below are some obverted New Years that are not based on the
Gregorian/Julian calendar. I’d like to
wish each and every person out there a Happy New Year, even if this is not the
date you observe New Year. I’m sure I
have missed more than a few different calendars, but to everybody Happy New
Year.
Since this is a SF & F blog, I thought some New Years
greetings from about 100 years ago showing new inventions with some science
fantasy elements. This is appropriate
since the first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration began in 1904 and the
first ball drop was in 1907. These are
real greetings cards showing the optimism from the beginning of the 20th
century, in the days before the end of the Modernist Era. I’d like to think we are wiser for the years
and expect brighter days ahead. My
interest in history and cultures also compels me to add some other new years,
which you will see below.CoastConFan
For the more esoteric minded person interested in New Years:
Coptic Orthodox Church New Year,
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