One commemorates the opening in 1866 of the city's late Victorian library.
Alongside one lauding comrade Billy Wright, the murdered leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force, is one commemorating the Princess of Wales.
January 4th ,1800 was the one commemorating the death of George Washington, and there are almost as many facsimiles as there are copies of "Gone with the wind".
Posters celebrating gay themes festoon the freshly painted walls; one commemorates "National Coming Out Day," with pictures of James Baldwin, Michelangelo and Eleanor Roosevelt.
"If Boris Johnson lasts as foreign secretary until next November, he'll be the one commemorating the Balfour declaration centenary," tweeted the Haaretz journalist Anshel Pfeffer.
"24 July will no longer be the eve of a day of celebration but rather one commemorating one of the saddest days in the history of Galicia," said Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the region's president.
Sometimes, we'd set out the table, but more often than not we'd sit in front of the TV with our dinner trays (mine was a tacky metallic one commemorating Charles and Diana's wedding).
There are T-shirts so echt-Hamptons that they have entered local lore, like the one commemorating Virgil the Frog Boy, immortalized in a 1980s graffito spray-painted across a railroad trestle over Route 114.
I walked up through forests of bamboo and pine, passing two broken stelae along the way: one commemorating a local hero who had fought the Japanese in the sixteenth century, the other a woman who had pioneered education in the mid-twentieth century.
I wear a couple wristbands: one commemorating the tragic event itself and one marking up the final funeral that I attended, a little girl who died.
