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Pioneer Pull: Early Utah settlers remembered at American Fork Pioneer Day celebration
Pioneer Day was celebrated the old-fashioned way Thursday afternoon in American Fork, as children participated in games and activities Latter-Day Saints settlers would have played when they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 178 years ago. Parents and grandparents watched kids enjoy the tug-of-war, hoop wheeling and handcart pulling at William S. Robinson Park, and expressed their appreciation for the pioneers who walked across the continent to find a new home in the Great Basin. “I celebrate the pioneers because they traveled from England or the east coast to Utah, and they made it, ...
