St. Martin's Day naming it “Saint Martin” and marking a new discovery for the Western. He arrived on St Martin’s Day, November 11th 1493 It is a public holiday on both sides to commemorate this event. St Martin’s Day was an important medieval autumn feast, and the custom of eating goose spread to Sweden from France. In early November, geese are ready for slaughter, and on St. Martin's Eve (Mårtensafton), November 10, it is time for the traditional dinner of roast goose. The custom is particularly popular in Skåne in southern Sweden, where goose farming has long been practised, but it has gradually
Thomas S. Martin Smithville, Virginia, as well as at the various watering places where she spent the summers of her happy girlhood. Her father, the Hon. C. Fenlon Day, was well known throughout Virginia. Her marriage with Senator Martin occurred at Smithfield, in 1894. Possessing decided literary talent, she wrote repeatedly for publication, and both her poems and her prose articles were admired for their beauty of thought and expression. Martin died while in office, at his home in Charlottesville, and is buried in the University of Virginia Cemetery at that location. Thomas S. Martin Thomas Staples Martin (July 29, 1847November 12, 1919)