Eli McCann: Utah’s Pioneer Day is a Frankenstein’s monster of a holiday. Witness that wacky, wonderful parade.
It’s patriotic-palooza — even though our forebears were fleeing the U.S. in their trek to the West.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Days of '47 Parade makes its way down 200 East in Salt Lake City in July 2014. Tribune columnist Eli McCann says the procession, a potpourri of pioneer and not-so pioneer tradition, is, in a good way, a "hot mess"