That’s right! Ella Higginson has her own day! On May 24, 1916, the Washington State Normal School at Bellingham celebrated our Pacific Northwest poet with a school-wide assembly. The event was reported that evening in The Bellingham Herald:

“This was Ella Higginson day at the State Normal and it was observed in a way that must have brought great pleasure to the gifted authoress. In her honor the students gathered in the auditorium this morning and listened to or took part in a very entertaining program, which consisted of poems and songs which she has written. As Mrs. Higginson entered the auditorium she was cheered and at the close of the exercises all of them filed by and shook her hand. She sat on the stage throughout the hour devoted to the program. Selections of her poems were read by Miss Mason, a student, and Mrs. G.W. Nash sang some of Mrs. Higginson’s songs.”