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So what is your favorite holiday, Independence day or Pioneer day? I rather prefer pioneer day. No, I'm not from Utah. Or any place that you would think of as having a high enough Mormon population to celebrate the Saints entering the Salt Lake Valley. But where I grew up every pioneer day, or rather the Saturday closest, the Museum opens its grounds and there a ton of activities and food and games. There's a parade with the primary children singing and people dress up. All this is done surrounded by buildings, most over a hundred years old. I have always found that this is a much more interesting way to spend a holiday than watching fireworks. I suppose I may change my mind, never having experianced a Utah 24th, but I will soon enough. Not this year though. I get to spend one last pioneer day with my family, dressed up in a skirt and bonnet, eating corndogs.

I much prefer the 4th in Utah. Then you get freedom festival, sleeping out on university avenue, and the BIG parade. Oddly enough, I like the 24th better when I'm at home in a state next to Utah. The stakes in my area all get together and have a big carnival, complete with rides, food, concerts, and fireworks, all free. I absolutely love it. My family all performs together and we have a blast (we're all singers.)

I vote 4th of July. This is the second year in a row that I've been in the UK for the 4th, and I miss fireworks so much!

where are you from that celebrated pioneer day if you are not from utah? I never heard of pioneer day until I came to utah, and still find it kind of weird. but i have nothing against being able to play with fireworks one more night of the year.

In my hometown in Ohio our Ward usually had a 24th get-together on a Saturday near the holiday itself. All I remember was dressing up in pioneer costumes as a kid for a little parade thing. So yeah, non-Utah has little events, but only Church-run ones.

bigthemat wrote:where are you from that celebrated pioneer day if you are not from utah? I never heard of pioneer day until I came to utah, and still find it kind of weird. but i have nothing against being able to play with fireworks one more night of the year.

Apparently my new ward here in Maine celebrated it, too.

I'm from California. The church would put it on, but we'd have at the museum. The County said we couldn't use the museum this year so it was canceled. It was a sad day.

Katya wrote:

bigthemat wrote:where are you from that celebrated pioneer day if you are not from utah? I never heard of pioneer day until I came to utah, and still find it kind of weird. but i have nothing against being able to play with fireworks one more night of the year.

Apparently my new ward here in Maine celebrated it, too.

you're in maine?

go new england!