The Winter Solstice
The word solstice comes from the Latin words for "sun" and "to stand still.” In the Northern Hemisphere, as summer advances to winter, the points on the horizon where the Sun rises and sets advance southward each day; the high point in the Sun’s daily path across the sky, which occurs at local noon, also moves southward each day. At the winter solstice, the Sun’s path has reached its southernmost position. The next day, the path will advance northward. However, a few days before and after the winter solstice, the change is so slight that the Sun’s path seems to stay the same, or stand still. The Sun is directly overhead at "high-noon" on Winter Solstice at the latitude called the Tropic of Capricorn. In the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice days are the days with the fewest hours of sunlight during the whole year.
Your Brothers of Western Maryland would like to invite you to our 3rd Friday Clubhouse Openhouse we are doing it big this year and having a Christmas party. So stop on by the clubhouse and start the long Christmas weekend right with some live music, laughs, libations and Brotherhood. Party kicks off @ 2000.
Clubhouse address: 18045 Oak Ridge Drive Hagerstown, Maryland. 21740