For his centennial in 1979, a birthday event was held in Chapel Hill, N.C. and a small commemoration in Storrs, at which James Merrill, another acclaimed Connecticut poet, spoke.
You can provide a small commemoration, even if she doesn't mention wanting to do anything.
Around the world, smaller commemorations were held in many capitals, with political and religious leaders voicing renewed commitments to democracy and the fight against terrorism.
There are also other smaller commemorations throughout the year, involving ceremonies, community gatherings, and lectures and exhibits hosted by local museums.
Canada's 150th anniversary of confederation is just a few months away -- they're calling it Canada's "big year" -- plus a round of smaller commemorations, including the 50th anniversary of the famous Ottawa swans and the 10th anniversary of the Rideu Canal as a World Heritage Site, are happening now.
Yet there is precious little commemoration of them.
He also celebrated with a little commemoration on Instagram.
In several locations across China this year, including Beijing, there were small, private commemorations.
Crowds gathered at the national memorial arboretum in Staffordshire and at Royal Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, the small town which held commemorations every time the bodies of servicemen killed in action were repatriated to the local air base at RAF Lyneham.
The parade, much smaller than similar commemorations in the Soviet period but laden with significance and mixed messages, marked the 63rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, which is observed in Russia as Victory Day, a solemn state holiday.
On the same day a newspaper in Beijing, Global Times, lashed out at a prominent civil-rights lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, for crossing a "red line" by attending a small private gathering earlier this month in commemoration of the Tiananmen Square unrest in 1989.
