Go To Hell Day

Diary entry for Monday, Nov 17, 1930, which reads, "Someday I am going to tell all the second rate wits I know to go to Hell!"

I like to celebrate "Go to Hell" Day each year on November 17th in honor of my great-aunt Irene. It comes from a diary entry she wrote in 1930, where she proclaimed:

Someday I am going to tell all the second rate wits I know to go to Hell.

Irene Morie Laverty grew up on her family's farm in Vineland, New Jersey. After graduating high school in 1925, she enrolled in art school in Philadelphia. She got her first job as a colorist at a woolen mill in 1929. For most of her five decade career, she worked as a freelance designer, creating and selling work that was manufactured as decorative fabrics and upholstery.

She was a first rate wit.

Dark-haired woman, weaing a print skirt and long coat, silling against a tree.