This is the first of several parts of the video I shot for Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald, Etc. to potentially use in their Life in a Day movie that they advertised right here on ours truly, YouTube.
July 24th, the day they wanted us to shoot from, just happens to be Utah’s state holiday, Pioneer Day, based on the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who moved west from Missouri and Illinois to escape undeserved and unwarranted persecution in the 1800s. They settled here in what we now know as Utah, before it was a state, back in 1847. The Utah territory became a state on January 4, 1896.
I celebrate Pioneer Day almost exclusively in Spanish Fork because I grew up there. That’s been my tradition ever since I can remember. The ages-old hobby of scrapbooking also became an industry there in 1981, by my own parents. July 24th also happens to be Spanish Fork’s main day of Fiesta Days (which usually go from July 21-24).
Spanish Fork’s name has something to do with discovering the area via a fork in the river there. As said in the Wikipedia, it got its name “from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico to the Spanish missions in California, along a route later followed by fur trappers.” Wikipedia also says that “Spanish Fork was settled by LDS pioneers in 1851.”
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