THE MOON & PA: Nationaldaycalendar.com has declared today to be National Pennsylvania Day.

In celebration of Independence Day this year, the website is naming holidays to honor each of states in the order they entered the union. It started with Delaware on July 13 and will end with Hawaii on June 27, 2018.

Today, National Day Calendar invites people explore “the iconic, historic and hidden treasures of this enchanting and complex state.”

Today is also National Lollipop Day, Get to Know Your Customers Day and National Moon Day, according to the website.

National Moon Day is actually so named in honor of the Apollo 11 mission that featured the first human steps on the moon. July 20, 1969, was the day hundreds of millions of viewers watched Neil Armstrong step foot on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility.

“Magnificent desolation.”

NASA quoted Buzz Aldrin as describing the moon, though the most well-known phrase of July 20, 1969, is no doubt Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind” remark.

TRIP TO TOWN: One of our favorite Kane writers shared this poem of all the little things she is grateful for on a simple trip to town.

“A Trip to Town”

By Frances Wolfe Haight

Thank you, Lord, for keeping me dry,

By the sun that is shining in the blue sky,

Thank you, Lord, for protecting me,

By helping the drivers to watch and see.

Thank you, Lord, for friendly faces,

And for people walking with slower paces,

Thank you, Lord, that I can smile,

Because I know you are with me every mile.

Thank you, Lord, for my wheelchair,

And for assuring me that you are there,

Thank you, Lord, for leading the way,

So I can go to town each sunny day.