The Days of '47 parade float preview party is taking place on Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Mountain America Expo Center. Thirty Pioneer Day-themed floats are on display.
SANDY — A large, colorful cricket towers over a foam man, who holds a styrofoam seagull at the ready. Cornhusks stand by as seagulls get ready to attack the lunging insect.
The Sandy Crescent Stake float is one of 30 showcased at the Days of '47 preview party, a two-day event taking place on Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Mountain America Expo Center. Other activities throughout the day involved performances from the Copper High School marching band , two brass quintets, the Utah Pipe Band and dances by the Salt Lake Utah Tongan West Stake. The events' attendees could also get their faces painted and watch clowns make balloon animals for them.Days of '47 Parade floats are on display at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on Friday and Saturday.
"Just looking at the different stories makes people want to know what stories are in their past, and in their family's past — and the way that people end up working together brings true friendship for lifetimes. People that they've never met before all of a sudden become best friends," Colligan said. "And it doesn't have to be just the LDS community. People from all areas of the community help on these floats, so it brings a real community together.
"We felt like — not everyone has pioneer ancestry that came across the plains, not everyone kind of connects with that, so we wanted to represent a broad range," Crabtree said. "We wanted to just have people feel like, when they look at it, that it's something that they can relate to because anybody has family history, everyone has ancestors and they come from all over."
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