Author: B. Roland Lewis

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781332175161

Excerpt from Pageantry and the Pilgrim Tercentenary Celebration, 1620-1920, Vol. 1: With Sample Pilgrim Pageants, Suggestions for Programs, Bibliographies, Etc;, For the State of Utah The State of Utah welcomes the Pilgrim Tercentenary Celebration! The year 1920-1921 will be a glorious one to us. It will be an anniversary long to be remembered. Enthusiasm for the celebration is ripe in every community. We look upon the Pilgrim Tercentenary as a golden opportunity, and not as an unwelcome duty superimposed. This great commonwealth in the inter-Rocky Mountain Country looks forward to the celebration in commemoration of the landing of Pilgrims, 300 years ago, as a most welcome opportunity to pay noble tribute to those sturdy Anglo-Saxon forefathers to whom the people of Utah owe so much and to whom they are so closely and so directly linked. Perhaps only the people of Massachusetts can point with greater pride directly to the Pilgrim Fathers. But it is, indeed, a very truth that many of the people of Utah are among the spiritual daughters and real blood descendants of the Pilgrims. Notwithstanding the highly cosmopolitan nature of the population of Utah today, as varied as that of any other commonwealth in the land, the back-bone of Utah is essentially of the staunchest New England stock and of the most vigorous New England Puritanism in its more wholesome and rigorous sense of morality, rectitude, and justice. We point with just pride to our inheritance from our Pilgrim Fathers. If you will consult the roster of the names of the pioneers who came into the Great Salt Lake valley in 1847 and in years subsequent thereto, you will find therein some of the very same names that are to be found in the list of passengers who landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the 1620's. The blood of many a Pilgrim father, by direct descent, flows in the veins of many a citizen of Utah. In the very communities in which you reside, are persons now living whose ancestry goes back directly to those doughty New Englanders. And the very same Anglo-Saxon institutions, - the keen sense of fair play, the wholesome and abiding sense of the common good, representative government, trial by jury, etc., combined with love and deep regard for the soil, for the home, for the church, for the state, and for the school - which our forefathers founded in America at Plymouth, in 1620, were founded and permanently established in the inter-Rocky Mountain district by the doughty pioneers who came to Utah in 1847 and in years immediately following. The very civilization that we so firmly believe in, those very liberties that we so thoroughly enjoy today, the very hopes and aspirations that motivate us to higher and nobler endeavor, are a priceless inheritance to us direct from the Pilgrim Fathers! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.