LizzieMaine
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I've never gotten a straight answer from anyone on exactly what "Boxing Day" is. I still don't know.
It's the custom of giving boxed gifts to employees and tradesmen and such on the day after Christmas. It's originally a UK thing, but it's become established in the US more as a day for organized post-Christmas appeals by charities. Our local community chest organization, striving to recover from being used as a personal checking account by its former president, puts on a benefit film at the theatre every Boxing Day, and we have a festively decorated box in the lobby for people to throw in their donations.
I still think Joe Louis ought to be involved though, perhaps as a mythic figure in purple trunks and robe who drives thru the night in his souped-up roadster delivering the gifts, or punches in the face to those who've been unworthy over the previous year.