print email comment close Sadie Hawkins Day URL: http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html Description: The site tells the history of this celebration introduced by cartoonist Al Capp in his Li'l Abner comic strip on November 15, 1937. Hekzebiah Hawkins of Dogpatch, USA, "decreed the first annual Sadie Hawkins Day, a foot race in which the unmarried gals pursued the town's bachelors, with matrimony the consequence." It was featured every November in the comic strip and the fictional holiday became a national craze observed on high school and college campuses. Publisher: Capp Enterprises, Inc. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Sadie Hawkins (Fictitious character) Special days LII Database Information: Record 6972 created by Julianna Hamann on 10/31/2002 Last modification on 11/04/2002 Published: 10/31/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6972